28 November 2005
The Prime Minister has today re-appointed Jacqueline McGlade as a Trustee of the Board of the Natural History Museum for a further four years.
Biographical Notes
Jacqueline McGlade is Executive Director of the European Environment Agency (EEA) and a regular broadcaster on TV and radio. Her main areas of research are: bioinformatics, expert systems, the ecology and taxonomy of marine fishes and the international politics of the oceans and natural resources. She has written extensively on fisheries, the environmental impact of industrial and natural activities, the patenting of organisms, the release of Genetically Modified Organisms and the use of multi media in developing countries. Professor McGlade is a Committee member of the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Darwin Initiative. Previously Jacqueline McGlade was a Professor of Biological Sciences at Warwick University, Director of Theoretical Ecology at the Forsschungszentrum Jülich, and Professorial Fellow in Mathematical Biology at University College London, and Director of the NERC Centre Coastal and Marine Sciences. She has served on research funding committees for both the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and NERC. She was a board member of the Environment Agency and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Earth Centre (UK).
Jacqueline McGlade has not been involved in any political activity in the past five years.
Notes for editors
The Natural History Museum houses over 68 million specimens of animals, plants, fossils, rocks and minerals. This national collection underpins the important research carried out by the Museum to benefit environmental, medical and agricultural sciences. It also includes the Zoological Museum at Tring. Trustees of the Natural History Museum are not remunerated.
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