Mark Maslin

Professor, Executive Director, Author

Mark Maslin FRGS, FRSA is a Professor of Earth System Science at University College London. He is a founding Director of Rezatec Ltd, a data product services company. He is member of the CSR Board of Sopria-Steria Group and Sheep Inc. and member of Cheltenham Science Festival Advisory Committee.

Maslin is a leading scientist with particular expertise in past global and regional climatic change and has publish over 170 papers in journals such as Science, Nature, and The Lancet. He has been PI or Co-I on grants worth over £70 million. His areas of scientific expertise include causes of global climate change and its effects on the carbon cycle, biodiversity, rainforests and evolution. He also works on monitoring land carbon sinks using remote sensing and ecological models and regularly comments on international and national climate change policies.

Professor Maslin has presented over 45 public talks over the last three years, including talks to Twitter, Google, Royal Geographical Society, Tate Modern, Royal Society of Medicine, Fink Club, Frontline Club, British Museum, Natural History Museum, Goldman Sachs, UNFCCC COP, WTO and the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard. He has written 10 popular books, over 70 popular articles (e.g., New Scientist, The Times, Independent and Guardian) and has had over 2.9 million read of his articles on The Conversation. He regularly appears on radio and television (including BBC One "Climate Change: the facts", Timeteam, Newsnight, Dispatches, Horizon, The Today Programme, BBC News, Channel 5 News, Euronews and Sky News). His book “Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction” by Oxford University Press is now in its third edition and has sold over 50,000 copies. His latest book on human evolution, "The Cradle of Humanity", was described by Professor Brian Cox as 'exhilarating'. In 2018 he published a Penguin bestseller "The Human Planet" with Professor Simon Lewis. In April 2021 Penguin published his book "How to Save Our Planet: The Fact". He was included in Who’s Who in 2009, was made a Royal Society Industrial Fellow between 2012-2016 and is a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Scholar.