Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh#
| Membership Number: | 61 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1988 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- Member of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education
- 1993 - 2000 Rector of Imperial College London
- 1988 - 1993 Chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence
- Visiting professor at Stanford, Caltech, and Cornell
- Head of the Department of Earth Sciences and President of Queens' College
Fields of Scholarship
- Geology
- Geophysics
Honours and Awards
- 1992 Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1992 Birthday Honours
- 1992 Life Peer as Baron Oxburgh, of Liverpool in the County of Merseyside on 27 July 1999 where he sits as a crossbencher on the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology and is an officer of the All-Parliamentary Group for Earth Sciences
- Honorary fellow of St Edmund Hall and University College, Oxford
- 2007 Platts Life Time Achievement Award
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- Corresponding fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
- Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Foreign member of the US National Academy of Science as well as the Australian and German Academies of Science
- Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University
- Degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, from Leeds University conferred 21 July 2009
- 2012 Singapore Honorary Citizenship, from the President Tony Tan Keng Yam of Singapore, conferred 2 October 2012
- 2014 Melchett Medal by the British Energy Institute on 2 December 2014
