Oxford Networks for the Environment (ONE) annual lecture followed by panel discussion and drinks reception – all welcome

Speaker: Professor Gideon Henderson, Professor of Earth Sciences, and former Defra Chief Scientific Advisor

Biography: Gideon is an environmental scientist and advisor with particular expertise as a geochemist researching surface-earth processes related to climate, the carbon cycle and the oceans.

From 2019 to 2025 he working 80% as the Chief Scientific Advisor and Director General for Science and Analysis at the UK Government Department, Defra (Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs). In addition to his work at Oxford, Gideon is Chair of the Met Office Science Advisory Committee, the Senior Independent Member of NERC Council, and a Member of the Advisory Board for the UN Decade of Ocean Science.

Programme

Welcome by Prof Heidi Johansen-Berg, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives

Keynote by Prof Gideon Henderson

Panel discussion:
Dr Steve Smith, Arnell Associate Professor of Greenhouse Gas Removal
Dr Jessica Omukuti, Research Fellow on the Politics of Net Zero in the Global South
Chaired by Prof Rosalind Rickaby, Chair of Geology, Department of Earth Sciences

Update on the Oxford Networks for the Environment by Prof Jim Hall, Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks, and Chair of ONE Network, Environmental Change Institute