Chris Rapley
University College London Professor of Climate Science
Professor Chris Rapley CBE is Professor of Climate Science at University College London. He is a Fellow of St Edmund's College Cambridge, a member of the Academia Europaea, and Chairman of the London Climate Change Partnership.
His previous posts include Director of the Science Museum London, Director of the British Antarctic Survey, President of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, and founder and Head of UCL's Earth Observation Satellite Group. He was Chair of the International Planning Group for the International Polar Year 2007-2008.
His current interests are in the role of climate scientists in society and the communication of climate science. He is Chair of the UCL Policy Commission on Communicating Climate Science.
In 2014 Prof Rapley and the British playwright Duncan Macmillan wrote the acclaimed play “2071” which Prof Rapley performed at the Royal Court theater and in Hamburg and Brussels.
In 2003 Prof Rapley was appointed CBE by Her Majesty the Queen. In 2008 he was awarded the Edinburgh Science Medal for having made 'a significant contribution to the understanding and wellbeing of humanity'.