Curriculum Vitae

Sir Crispin Tickell GCMG KCVO

Believed accurate as of 17 April 2009.

Main Current Appointments

• Director of the Policy Foresight Programme at the 21st Century School, Oxford University, since 2006
• Chairman of the Trustees of the St Andrew's Prize for the Environment since 1998
• Advisor at Large to the President of Arizona State University since 2004.

Career

• Born: 25 August 1930
• Educated at Westminster School (King's Scholar); and Christ Church, Oxford (Hinchliffe & Hon Scholar); 1st Class Honours Modern History 1952; Gladstone Memorial Exhibitioner 1952.
• Married:
  1. Chloe Gunn 1954. Marriage dissolved 1976. Two sons, one daughter.
  2. Penelope Thorne Thorne 1977.
• Served with Coldstream Guards (2nd Lieutenant) 1952 - 1954
• Joined British Diplomatic Service 1954 and served at:
  • Foreign Office, 1954 - 1955
  • British Embassy The Hague, 1955 - 1958
  • British Embassy Mexico, 1958 - 1961
  • Foreign Office (Planning Staff), 1961 - 1964
  • British Embassy Paris, 1964 - 1970
  • Private Secretary to successive Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster as Ministers responsible for the negotiations for British entry into the European Community, 1970 - 1972.
  • Head of Western Organizations Department, FCO 1972 - 1975 (hence responsible for NATO matters, European security problems including the CSCE, and politico-military affairs generally)
  • Fellow at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1975 - 1976
  • Chef de Cabinet to the President of the European Commission, 1977 - 1981
  • Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1981
  • British Ambassador to Mexico, 1981 - 1983
  • Deputy Under-Secretary of State (Economic), Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1983 - 1984
  • Permanent Secretary, Overseas Development Administration, 1984 - 1987
  • British Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Permanent Representative on the Security Council, 1987 - 1990
• Warden of Green College, Oxford, 1990 - 1997
• President of the Royal Geographical Society 1990 - 1993, Vice-President 1993 - 2002, Hon Vice President 2002
• President of the National Society for Clean Air and Environmental Protection 1997 - 1999
• President of the Marine Biological Association 1990-2001, and Vice President since 2001
• President of the South East England Climate Change Partnership since 2005
• Chairman of the Board of the Climate Institute of Washington DC 1990 - 2002, and Chairman Emeritus since 2002
• Convenor of the Government Panel on Sustainable Development 1994 - 2000
• Chairman of the Gaia Society 1998 - 2001
• Chairman of the Gaia Special Interest Group of the Geological Society of London since 2000
• Chairman of the International Institute for Environment and Development 1990 - 1994
• Chairman of Earthwatch Europe 1991-1997
• Chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Darwin Initiative for the Survival of Species 1992 - 1999
• Chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Environment (ACE) of the International Council for Science 1999 - 2004
• Senior Inaugural Visiting Fellow at Harvard University Center for the Environment 2002 - 2003.

Publications:

• Climatic Change and World Affairs, Harvard University 1977; Pergamon Press 1978. Revised edition Harvard University and University Press of America 1986.
• Mary Anning of Lyme Regis, Lyme Regis Museum 1996, 1998 & 2003
• Also contributor to many books & papers, including:
  • The Evacuees, edited by B.S. Johnson, 1968
  • Life After Death, edited by Robin Denniston, 1976
  • The United Kingdom -The United Nations, edited by Erik Jensen and Thomas Fisher, 1990
  • Sustaining Earth: Response to the Environmental Threats, edited by David J.R. Angell, Justyn D. Comer, Matthew L.N. Wilkinson, 1990
  • Greenhouse Glasnost: edited by Robert Redford, 1990
  • Sir Francis Galton: edited by Milo Keynes, 1991
  • Monitoring the Environment: edited by Bryan Cartledge, 1992
  • Threats Without Enemies: edited by Gwyn Prins, 1993
  • Sustainable Development and the Energy Industries: edited by Nicola Steen 1994
  • Science for the Earth: edited by Tom Wakeford & Martin Walters 1995
  • The Changing World: edited by Patricia Fara, Peter Gathercole and Ronald Laskey 1996
  • Remaking the Landscape: edited by Jennifer Jenkins 2002
  • Managing the Earth: edited by James C. Briden & Thomas E. Downing 2002
  • Johannesburg Summit 2002: Challenges and Partnerships: edited by Diana Fortescue 2002
  • A Parliament of Science: edited by Michael Tobias, Teun Timmers and Gill Wright: 2003
  • Scientists Debate Gaia: edited by Stephen H. Schneider, James R. Miller, Eileen Crist, & Penelope J. Boston: 2004
  • Roy Jenkins: A Retrospective: edited by Andrew Adonis and Keith Thomas: OUP: 2004
  • Book reviews for the Financial Times, Nature, The Literary Review and others.

Radio and Television

Wide experience of radio and television, in particular:

• BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs (1990)
• The Doomsday Letters (1996)
• BBC Breakfast with Frost (2000 and 2002)
• BBC Radio Webcast at the Thames Barrier (2000/2001)
• ITV Jonathan Dimbleby Show (2000)
• Radio 4 programme The Commission (2002)
• ITN & ITV News & Current Affairs interviews (on going)
• BBC & BBC World Service interviews (on going)
• Radio 4 Today programme interviews (2002/3)
• BBC 2 documentary film UK Confidential New Year's Day (2002).

Business, University and other Interests

• Director (non executive) Govett Enhanced Income Investment Trust 1999 - 2004
• Director BOC Foundation for the Environment 1990 - 2003
• Member of Environment Committee of Friends Provident 1995 - 99 Stewardship Committee of Reference of ISIS Asset Management, now F&C Asset Management 1999
• Director (non executive) IBM (UK) 1990-95: Member of IBM Advisory Board 1995 - 2000
• Director (non executive) Govett Mexican Horizons 1991 - 1996
• Director (non executive) Govett American Smaller Companies Trust 1996 - 1998
• Director of the Green College Centre for Environmental Policy and Understanding 1992 - 2006
• Trustee of the Reuters Foundation 2000 -
• Trustee of TERI Europe 2003 -
• Chairman of the Trustees of Leadership for Environment and Development UK 2001-2005
• Trustee of the Baring Foundation 1992 - 2002
• Trustee of the British Museum of Natural History 1992 - 2001
• Trustee of World Wide Fund for Nature (UK) 1993 - 1999
• Trustee of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 1997 - 2001
• Chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Global Future of Civil Nuclear Energy (within the Sustainable Energy Programme of the Royal Institute of International Affairs) 2000 - 2002
• President, Education Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 2002 - 2003
• Senior Advisor to the Global Environment Facility in Washington DC USA 1994 - 2003
• Vice President of Interact Worldwide (previously Population Concern) since 1990
• Vice President of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine since 1994
• Associate Fellow of the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford since 1997
• Chairman of Advisory Group of the Centre for Climate Impacts Forecasting (C-CLIF) 1999 - 2003
• Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Ethics, Environment & Society (OCEES) 1996 - 2003
• Governor of the Ditchley Foundation 1991, and member of the Council of Management since 2002
• Advisor to British Antarctic Survey since 1998
• Trustee of the Reuters Foundation 2000 -
• Trustee of TERI Europe 2003 -
• Associate Fellow of the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization, Oxford 2006 -
• Vice President of United Nations Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Member, the Oxford Commission on Sustainable Consumption 1999 - 2004
• Member, the China Council for International Co-operation in Environment and Development since 1992
• Member, the Environmental Advisory Council of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 1991 - 1994 and again 1999 - 2005
• Member, the Government Task Force on Urban Regeneration 1998 - 1999
• Member, the Government Task Force on Potentially Hazardous Near Earth Objects 2000
• Member, the Board of Overseers of the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA since 1996
• Member, the Board of Overseers of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at the Earth Institute Columbia University, New York since 2002
• Member, the Government Round Table on Sustainable Development 1994 - 2000
• Member, the Council of St. George's House, Windsor 1992 - 1999
• Member, the Committee for the Public Understanding of Science (COPUS) 1991 - 1994.

Personal Interests

Climatology, the early history of the earth, art (especially pre Colombiana), and mountains.

Honours

• GCMG 1988; KCVO 1983 (MVO 1958)
• Officer Order of Orange Nassau (Netherlands) 1958
• Chevalier in the National Order of Mali 1979
• Order of the Aztec Eagle with sash (Mexico) 1994
• Doctor (honoris causa), Academia Mexicana de Derecho Internacional 1983. Orden Academica del Derecho, de la Cultura, y de la Paz 1989
• Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) University of Massachusetts, USA, 1990
• Doctor (honoris causa) University of Stirling 1990
• Doctor of Science (honoris causa) University of East Anglia 1990
• Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) Polytechnic of Central London 1990 (now the University of Westminster)
• Doctor of Science (honoris causa) University of Sussex 1991
• Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) University of Birmingham 1991
• Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) University of Bristol 1991
• Doctor of Science (honoris causa) Cranfield University 1992
• Doctor of Science (honoris causa) Loughborough University of Technology 1995
• Doctor of Civil Law (honoris causa) University of Kent at Canterbury 1996
• Doctor (honoris causa) Sheffield Hallam University 1996
• Doctor (honoris causa) University of East London 1998
• Doctor of Science (honoris causa) University of Exeter 1999
• Doctor of Science (honoris causa) University of Hull 2001
• Doctor of Science (honoris causa) University of Plymouth 2001
• Doctor of Science (honoris causa) University of St. Andrews 2002
• Doctor of Science (honoris causa) University of Southampton 2002
• Doctor of Science (honoris causa) Oxford Brookes University 2002
• Doctor of Science (honoris causa) Universite du Littoral Cote d'Opale 2002
• Doctor of Humane Letters (honoris causa) American University of Paris 2003
• Doctor of Law (honoris causa) University of Nottingham 2003
• Doctor of The Open University (honoris causa) 2006
• Doctor of Sciences (honoris causa) University of Brighton 2006
• Honorary Fellow of the Anglo American School, New York City 1990
• Honorary Fellow of St. Edmund's College, Cambridge 1995
• Honorary Fellow of Green College, Oxford 1997
• Honorary Fellow of Westminster School 1993
• Honorary Fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society 1992
• Honorary Fellow of The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management 1996
• Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects 2000
• Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 2002
• Honorary Senior Member of Darwin College, Cambridge 1997
• Member of The Global 500: Roll of Honour for Environmental Achievement of the United Nations Environment Programme 1991
• Global Environmental Leadership Award of the Climate Institute of Washington DC 1996
• Distinguished Lecturer British Geological Survey 1994
• Centennial Lecturer at Arizona State University 1995
• Melchett Medallist of the Institute of Energy 1996
• Kelvin Medallist of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow 1996
• First Happold Medallist of the National Construction Industry Council 1998
• Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society 2000
• Distinguished Environmental Lecturer at Harvard University 2001
• Award for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development) 1996
• Award for International Cooperation on Environmental Protection (Chinese State Environmental Protection Agency SEPA) 2003
• CAB International Bioscience Fellow 2004
• Chinese Government Friendship Award 2004
• Minor Planet named No. 5971 Tickell 2006.