Dr. Roland Clift
Credentials
CBE, MA, PhD, FREng, FIChemE, FRSA, HonFCIWEM
Area of expertise
Roland has served as both President and Executive Director of the International Society for Industrial Ecology. He is a past member of the (UK) Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and the Science Advisory Council of the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. He was a founding member of the UK Eco-labelling Board. In 2004-5, he acted as Expert Adviser to a House of Lords Select Committee enquiry into energy efficiency. In 2012-14, he served as Review Editor and Chapter Author for the Industry chapter of Working Group III (Mitigation) of the 5th Assessment Report (AR5) of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). His current research concerns clean energy systems, particularly using biomass, and modelling of stocks and flows in the economy to develop thinking beyond the 鈥渃ircular economy鈥� model. He was a co-editor, with Angela Druckman, of 鈥淭aking Stock of Industrial Ecology鈥� (Springer, 2016). His next book will be 鈥淟iving Well on a Finite Planet鈥�, co-authored with a multidisciplinary team: George Martin (sociologist), Simon Mair (economist) and Rosalind Malcolm (lawyer). It is due for publication by Springer in 2024.