Professor David Drewry CGeog

Biography

Occupation: Vice-President Employer: European University Assoc. Memo: David is currently Vice-Chancellor at The University of Hull. David has a BSc in Geography with Geology from Queen Mary, University of London and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. In 2001 he was also awarded personal professorship by the University of Hull. David has been involved in a range of research activities involving Arctic and Antarctic environments. David is also President of the International Arctic Science Committee; and has been a member of council for the European Science Foundation; a member of the sea-level panel for the IPCC and was the Founding Chairman of the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programmes. David has received the United States Antarctic Service Medal, the Polar Medal (Arctic and Antarctic clasp) and both the Cuthbert Peek Award and Patron’s Medal (Gold) from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).