The Expert
Professor John F B Mitchell OBE FRS is Met Office Director of Climate Science. He gained a BSc honours degree in applied mathematics in 1970 and a PhD in theoretical physics in 1973, both from Queen's University, Belfast.
He joined the dynamical climatology branch of the British Meteorological Office in 1973. In 1978, he took charge of the climate change group in what is now the Met Office's Hadley Centre for Climate Change. He is a leading expert in climatic effects of increases in greenhouse gases and related pollutants.
He was a lead author in the first three IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) reports. He is currently chairman of the WMO JSC/CLIVAR Working Group on Climate Modelling. In 1997 and 1998 he shared the Norbert Gerbier-Mumm Prize and in 2004 received the Hans Oeschger medal from the European Geophysical Union.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is also a visiting professor at the School of Mathematics, Meteorology and Physics in the University of Reading, and an honorary professor of environmental science at the University of East Anglia.
