Speakers

Dr. Murray C. Simpson is a Senior Research Associate at Oxford University Centre for the Environment, Associate Professor at the Estonian University of Life Sciences, Treasurer and Committee Member of the UK Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (UK and International), and works as a private consultant. He has extensive experience in sustainable development, tourism, climate change and the environment and has worked at chief executive management level in private industry and in the public sector at board level – including sustainable tourism development, tourism strategy, tourism analysis and climate change adaptation and mitigation projects in developed and developing countries, and in small island states (bridging the gap between research, policy and implementation).

Simpson is also Co-Director of The CARIBSAVE Partnership, a founding committee member of the experts in Climate Change and Tourism network (eCLAT) and an Associate of Climate Change Risk Management (CCRM).