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Air Marshal ‘Timo’ Anderson, Director General, Military Aviation Authority

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Patrick Goudou, Executive Director, European Aviation Safety Agency

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Leo Quinn, Chief Executive Officer, QinetiQ Group Plc

Taking place on the 13th & 14th April 2011 at the Society’s Headquarters, Aerospace 2011: Funding the Future will focus on Aerospace & Aviation in an Age of Austerity and address how both the civil and defence communities can look to overcome economic uncertainties and grow business in the coming years.

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Tim Clark, President, Emirates Airline

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Sir David King, Director, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford

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A YEAR IN CONTROL

Richard Deakin, Chief Executive Officer, NATS

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CLIMATE CHANGE AND AVIATION

Professor Sir Brian Hoskins, Director, Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College London

Biography:

Sir Brian Hoskins is a Royal Society Research Professor.  In January 2008 he became the first Director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College, and now shares his time between Imperial and Reading University, where he is Professor of Meteorology.  His degrees are in mathematics from the University of Cambridge and he spent post-doc years in the USA before moving to Reading, where he became a professor in his thirties and was a head of department for six years. His research is in weather and climate, in particular the understanding of atmospheric motion from frontal to planetary scales. His international roles have included being vice-chair of the Joint Scientific Committee for the World Climate Research Programme and President of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences and involvement in the Nobel Prize winning international climate change assessments. He has also had numerous UK roles, including playing a major part in the 2000 Report by The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution that first proposed a 60% target for UK carbon dioxide emission reduction by 2050, and is currently a member of the UK Committee on Climate Change. He is a member of the science academies of the UK, USA, China and Europe and has received a number of awards including the top prizes of the UK and US Meteorological Societies and honorary DScs from the Universities of Bristol and East Anglia. He was knighted in 2007 for his services to the environment.

Summary:

A review will be given of the scientific basis for concerns over climate change, and the contribution by aviation will be highlighted.  Responses to these concerns will be given, and in particular the UK greenhouse gas targets proposed by the Climate Change Committee will be discussed.  Implications for the development of aviation up to 2050 will be drawn.

Programme:

16:30 - 17:00 hrs     Tea & coffee

17:00 - 18:00 hrs     Briefing

18:00 - 19:00 hrs     Reception

If you would like to attend this event and are employed by a Corporate Partner of the Royal Aeronautical Society, please contact Gail Ward, Corporate Events Manager, for booking details:

Tel: +44 (0)1491 629 912

Email: [email protected]

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2020 VISION - PER ARDUA AD ASTRA

Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton, Chief of the Air Staff