Simon Buckle is the Policy Director at the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London. He was Pro Rector for International Affairs at Imperial (2011-13) and formerly was a senior British diplomat. He has a doctorate in theoretical physics, was awarded a CMG in 2007 and is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. He is a member of the Governing Board of the EIT Climate Knowledge and Innovation Community and a member of NERC's Strategic Programme Advisory Group (SPAG).