Lord May of Oxford

Robert May

Robert May

Party

Crossbench

Address as

Lord May

Contact details

Westminster

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 6958

Biography

Councils, public bodies

Chair of trustees, Natural History Museum 1993-98; President, The Royal Society 2000-05; Non-executive board member, Defence, Science and Technology Laboratory; Member, Climate Change Committee (DECC); Adviser, Tesco's Sustainable Consumption Institute; President, British Science Association 2009-10; Board member, British Council

Name, style and title

Raised to the peerage as Baron May of Oxford, of Oxford in the County of Oxfordshire 2001

Register of Interests

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