Professor Mark Maslin is a climatologist at University College London. He is an Executive Director of Carbon Auditors Ltd/Inc. He is science advisor to the Global Cool Foundation and Carbon Sense Ltd.  He is a trustee of the charity TippingPoint and a member of Cheltenham Science Festival Advisory Committee.  Maslin is a leading scientist with particular expertise in past global and regional climatic change and has publish over 120 papers in journals such as Science, Nature, and Geology.  He has been awarded grants of over £28 million. His areas of scientific expertise include causes of past and future global climate change. He also works on monitoring land carbon sinks using remote sensing and ecological models and international and national climate change policies.

Professor Maslin has presented over 45 public talks over the last three years including Oxford, Cambridge, Leeds, RGS, Tate Modern, Royal Society of Medicine, British Museum, Natural History Museum, CLG, and Goldman Sachs.  He has also have written 7 popular books, over 25 popular articles (e.g., for New Scientist, Independent and Guardian), appeared on radio, television and been consulted regularly by the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky News. His latest popular book is the highly successful Oxford University Press Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction the second edition was published late last year and has sold over 40,000 copies.  Maslin was also a co-author of the recent Lancet report Managing the health effects of climate change and a DIFD Report on Population, Climate Change and the Millennium Development Goals.