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Roland Clift, University of Surrey, U.K., President Int. Soc. for Industrial Ecology
Roland Clift studied Chemical Engineering at Cambridge (Trinity College), achieving first class honours in 1964. He received a PhD from McGill University in 1970 for work on particle-fluid interactions, and this was his main research area (at McGill and Cambridge then Surrey University) in subsequent years. He was Head of the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Surrey from 1981 to 1991. In 1982, he set up the Centre for Environmental Strategy at the University of Surrey and was its first Director.
Currently, Roland Clift is Emeritus Professor at the University of Surrey and President of the International Society for Industrial Ecology. His research specialisation is in the broad field of Environmental System Analysis, including Life Cycle Assessment, Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Energy Systems. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and of the Royal Society of Arts, and an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Waste and Environmental Management. He is also Visiting Professor in Environmental System Analysis at Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden and Adjunct Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. In 2003, he was awarded the Sir Frank Whittle medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering “in recognition of an outstanding and sustained engineering achievement contributing to the well-being of the nation”. In 2005 he completed a 9 year term as a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, and acted as Expert Adviser to an enquiry by the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee into “Energy Efficiency”. In 2006, he was appointed a member of the Science Advisory Council of the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
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