Guest: Professor Sir David King
Format: Presentation Followed By Audience Q&A
Date and Time: Monday, 28th June - 6pm British Time
Platform: Zoom

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About this Event:

Sir David will present an insightful and impactful presentation on the current “state of the climate” and its exponentially increasing impacts on mankind. He will detail the immediate need for climate repair, as well as direct us viewers on how we can affect this drastically needed change to a fossil-fuel-free society.

Featured Guest Biography:

Professor Sir David King is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Cambridge; Founder and Chair of the CU Centre for Climate Repair; an Affiliate Partner of SYSTEMIQ Limited; and Senior Strategy Adviser to the President of Rwanda.

He was the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser from 2000 to 2007 and the Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative on Climate Change from 2013 to 2017. He is a world-renowned advocate of climate change, initiating an internationally collaborative programme, now known as Mission Innovation, to create a £23bn pa research and development exercise, involving 22 countries and the EC, to deliver the technologies needed to transition to a fossil-fuel-free world economy.

As Govt Chief Scientific Adviser, he was instrumental in creating the £1 billion British Energy Technologies Institute.

Knighted in 2002, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he was made “Officier dans l’ordre national de la Légion d’Honneur” in 2009.

South African born, Sir David earned a bachelor of science and PhD at the University of Witwatersrand, and he has held several high-level positions at numerous universities in addition to his roles at Cambridge, including the University of Oxford and Imperial College.

Event Details:

Date and Time: Monday, 28th June - 6pm British Time
Platform: Zoom