Bill McGuire

Professor Bill McGuire has for the last 10 years run the biggest academic hazard research centre in Europe, consulting governments and multi-nationals on the expected impact of climate change. He has followed David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins and Robert Winston in giving the Annual Science Lecture and in June he will present a 5-minute slot each evening for a week, as part of Channel 5 News, on The Future of Our World. He also presented the acclaimed Radio 4 series Disasters in Waiting and Scientists under Pressure.