Lord May of Oxford

The Lord May of Oxford OM

Robert May

Crossbench

18 July 2001

Contact details

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 0207 219 5353
Fax: 0207 219 5979
contactholmember@parliament.uk

Committee	House	Date
Economic Affairs Committee (L)	Lords	2013-
HIV and AIDS Committee in the United Kingdom	Lords	2010-11
Sub-Committee I	Lords	2007-11
Draft Climate Change Bill (Joint Committee)	Lords	2007-07
Science and Technology Committee (L)	Lords	2006-10

Job title	Organisation	Date
Royal Society Research Professor	Department of Zoology, Oxford University	1989-
Vice-President for Research	Princeton University, USA	1977-88
Professor of Biology	Princeton University, USA	1973-88
Senior Lecturer/Professor	Physics Department, University of Sydney	1961-73
Lecturer	Engineering and Applied Physics, Harvard	1960-61

Post	Organisation	Date
Committee Member	Climate Change Committee	2009-
Committee Member	European Research Council	2007-10
Committee Member	Corporate Sustainability Committee, HSBC	2006-
President	The Royal Society	2000-05
Chief Scientific Adviser	PM and UK Government	1995-00
Chairman of Trustees	Natural History Museum	1993-98
Committee Member	Joint Nature Conservancy Council	1990-95

1: Directorships
- Non-executive Director, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory Board (DSTL)
2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- Member, Corporate Sustainability Board HSBC (previously Corporate Social Responsibility Committee)
- Member, International Advisory Board, Sustainable Consumption Institute, Manchester University
- Member, UK Climate Change Committee
- Occasional lectures in Saïd Business School's Corporate Outreach Programme, Oxford University
5: Land and property
- Two flats in Oxford
6: Sponsorship
- Oxford University's Zoology Department provides me with a personal assistant/secretary who supports my general university/academic activities; about 5% of her time could be attributed to activity involving the House of Lords and its Select Committees (particularly the Science and Technology Committee)
10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Emeritus Professor, Zoology Department, Oxford University
10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Council Member (President 2009-2010), British Science Association
- Fellow (President 2000-05), Royal Society