President
Sir John Houghton CBE FRS is President of the John Ray Initiative. He was chairman of Scientific Assessment for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Director General of the UK Meteorological Office, and Professor of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Oxford. More »
Vice-Presidents
R J (Sam) Berry FRSE is Emeritus Professor of Genetics at University College London. He is a former President of Christians in Science. More »
Colin Russell FRSC is Professor Emeritus in History of Science and Technology at the Open University. He was UCCF vice-president. More »
Dr John Sale is a consultant on biodiversity conservation in Africa and Asia, both as an academic and a UN Chief Technical Adviser to national governments on post-graduate training and research on wildlife. He is a member of IUCN’s European Sustainable Use Specialist Group. He is the author of numerous papers on mammal biology and technical aspects of the conservation of tropical species and their habitats, ranging from elephants and rhinos to orang-utans. One of the founders of JRI and presently its International Secretary.
Directors
Claire Ashton (Executive Secretary) has a background in Civil Engineering and Environmental Technology. She currently works in the UK water industry carrying out research on underground asset management, including leakage, condition assessment and failure of clean water pipelines.
Paul Houghton (Treasurer) was a Further Education lecturer, teaching Physics and Mathematics. He became Treasurer of JRI in 2000.
Margot Hodson is the Vicar of Haddenham, and was previously Chaplain of Jesus College, Oxford. Margot teaches environmental ethics at Oxford Brookes University. More »
Dr Hilary Marlow is a Teaching Associate in Old Testament in the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, and an Associate of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion. She writes and speaks on Christian theology and the environment in a wide range of contexts, and has been actively involved for many years in the Christian conservation charity A Rocha.
Revd Dr John Weaver (Chairman) is the Principal of South Wales Baptist College. Previously he was Director of Pastoral Training at Regent’s Park College, Oxford. He was pastor of Highfield Baptist Church, Northamptonshire. More »
Robert White FRS is Professor of Geophysics at Cambridge University. He researches the earth’s crust, especially rifts and volcanoes, using geophysical tools. Bob is a church warden and a home group leader. More »
Staff
Dr Martin Hodson (Operations Manager) is Principal Tutor of the Certificate in Christian Rural and Environmental Studies (CRES), and Visiting Researcher in Environmental Biology at Oxford Brookes University. More »
Lynda McKeown (Administrator)
John McKeown (Technical Support)