Roland Clift

Background

Clift was born 19 November 1942 and studied Chemical Engineering at Cambridge (Trinity College), achieving first class honours in 1964.

Education

He received a PhD from McGill University in 1970 for work on particle-fluid interactions, and this was his main research area (at McGill and Cambridge then Surrey University) in subsequent years.

Career

He became Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Surrey in 1981. His growing interest in the application of engineering principles to environmental issues led him in 1992 to establish the Centre for Environmental Strategy (CES) at the University of Surrey, a multidisciplinary group of engineers, scientists and social scientists. In this Centre he was an advocate of Clean Technology, Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainable Development.

He is presently Professor Emeritus at the CES. He has made a number of criticisms of government policy with respect to energy and the environment. Member, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (1996–2005). Visiting Professor in Environmental Systems Analysis at Chalmers University, Sweden.

Expert Adviser to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee enquiry into Energy Efficiency (2004-5). Vice-President of Environmental Protection UK. President of the International Society for Industrial Ecology 2009-10. P. , & Wright, L., (2000) Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 65, 3, pp 281–295 "Relationships Between Environmental Impacts and Added Value Along the Supply Chain" Azapagic, A., Perdan, S., and , (eds) (2004) Sustainable Development in Practice – case studies for engineers and scientists, John Wiley & Sons R., Sellgren, A. and and Mulugetta, Y.

Achievements

• He is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society of Arts. In 1994 he was made an OBE for his initiative in promoting research in Clean Technology, and a CBE in 2006 for services to the environment. He received the Sir Frank Whittle Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering for 2003, for 'an outstanding and sustained engineering achievement contributing to the well-being of the nation'.
  
  He received the 2007 Hanson Medal of the Institution of Chemical Engineers.

Works

• book

  • Slurry Transport Using Centrifugal Pumps

    (The students of a course (GIW Hydraulic Laboratory) have ...)

  • Slurry Transport Using Centrifugal Pumps

    (1,1 Applications of Slurry Transport Vast tonnages are pu...)

  • Slurry Transport Using Centrifugal Pumps (International Series on Computational Engineering)

Membership

Member Royal Commision on Environmental Pollution, since 1996. Fellow Royal Academy of Engineering, Institution of Chemical Engineers.

Connections

Married Rosena Valory Davison, September 1968 (divorced 1978). 1 child, Vanessa; married Diana Helen Manning, March 1979. Children: Julian (deceased), Adrian.

Father:

Lesley William Clift

Mother:

Ivy Florence (Wheeler) Clift

Spouse:

Diana Helen Manning

Spouse:

Rosena Valory Davison

child:

Adrian Clift

child:

Julian Clift (deceased)

child:

Vanessa Clift