PROFESSOR CHEVALIER DR JOHN R PORTER

BSc (Hons), MIBiol, CBiol, PhD, DSc, dr agro., Chevalier de France. Plant and Environmental Sciences Faculty of Sciences, University of Copenhagen (UC) Denmark.

• Danish and European citizen; resident of France.
• Consultant Professor, University of Montpellier and Agropolis International, France.
• Consultant Professor, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier, France.
• Emeritus Professor of Climate and Food Security, University of Copenhagen (UC), Denmark.
• Emeritus Professor of Agriculture and Climate Change, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, UK.
• Honorary Professor, Lincoln University, New Zealand.
• Honorary Fellow, University of Wales, UK. Registered European Consultant, European Commission.

About

I am an internationally known scientist at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark with expertise in ecology, computer simulation modelling, climate change and food security. From 2011 to 2014 I led the writing of the critically important chapter for the IPCC 5th Assessment Report on food security; scientists from the IPCC shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. I have received six international prizes for research and teaching and in 2016 I was knighted by the Government of France for my services to science. I am a Chevalier Français. I am a founder member of the Advanced Research Institute at the University of Montpellier and science consultant on the One Planet Fellowship Programme. 

I had an excellent education at Calday that has served me well during my career, which has crossed disciplines from science to humanities - this has been a highlight of my career which has made it more of a hobby than a job.  I learned to write, speak French, love history and I enjoyed the balance at Calday with high level academic learning and also sports.