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LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

sponsored by GE Capital Solutions

Winner: Lord Oxburgh
Lord Oxburgh is a long-standing public advocate of the need to address climate change issues. Born in Liverpool in 1934, he attended Liverpool Institute High School from 1942 to 1950 and is a graduate of the University College, Oxford and Princeton University (PhD) where he worked for the famous geologist Harry Hess.

Lord Oxburgh was Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology at Cambridge University from 1978 to 1991. After spell as chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence, he was knighted (KBE) in 1992 and made a Life Peer as Baron Oxburgh, of Liverpool in in 1999, where he sits on the House of Lords select committee on science and technology.

He spent eight years as Rector of Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine from 1993 to 2001. He is currently involved with a number of all-party parliamentary groups. He is Vice-Chairman of the Globe UK Group and Treasurer of the Earth Sciences Group, and also chaired the Science and Technology Select Committee from 2001 to 2004.

Lord Oxburgh served as the Non-Executive Chairman of Shell Transport and Trading plc from 2004 to 2005, during which time he took a close interest in the company’s environmental technologies. Since then, he has been an adviser to Climate Change Capital, a specialist investment banking group focused on companies and financial institutions affected by the policy and capital market responses to climate change.

Lord Oxburgh was appointed Non-Executive Chairman of D1 Oils plc, a UK-based global producer of biodiesel, in January 2007.
He has spoken about there being "a social responsibility on people from other backgrounds to participate in the corporate world". He is a worthy recipient of the 2007 GreenFleet Lifetime Achievement Award.