Malcolm Brown Dr

Biography

The Society is admired as both a learned society and a professional body, providing impartial advice and a pre-eminent forum for industry and academic debate. My key objectives while I am President are to maintain scientific excellence in all Society activities, broaden the income base of the Society and through multi-disciplinary conferences seek to better engage both public and government by providing impartial, informative advice to areas of public debate. After graduating from Kingston Polytechnic (1976), with a BSc in Geology, I worked in Libya and Saudi Arabia before completing an MSc in Petroleum Geology at Imperial College (1982). I worked at British Gas / BG Group for over 30 years as it evolved from state owned utility to successful international business and was Executive Vice President, Exploration. I’m an explorer at heart and led BG’s global exploration efforts for most of the last two decades, during which time it was involved in 16 giant discoveries. I became a Fellow in 1982, served on Council between 2009 and 2012 and became a Chartered Geologist in 2013. I am a former Chairman of the Petroleum Group.I was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Kingston University in 2007 and the Petroleum Group Medal in 2011.

Research Interest

Environmental Science and Earth science