NOMINATION FORM FOR ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE IUGS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2016-2020 TO BE EXAMINED BY THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE ___________________________ Due at IUGS Nominating Committee by 31 January, 2016 IUGS Nominating Committee Chair: Prof. Jacques Charvet 373 rue des Clatz 45160 OLIVET, FRANCE Tel: +33-238692684 Mobile: +33-680455952 Email: jacquespcharvet@orange.fr ___________________________ Nomination submitted by: National Adhering Organization, GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON Represented by: First Name: MICHAEL Last Name: YOUNG Position: Secretary, Foreign and External Affairs We hereby nominate: EDMUND NICKLESS For membership on the IUGS Executive Committee 2016-2020 as: President Secretary General Treasurer Vice-President X Councillor X Preferably for the term 2016-2020 Preferably for the term 2018-2022 Date: 30 July 2016 Signature of the person submitting nomination Candidate’s agreement: I, EDMUND NICKLESS hereby agree to serve if elected Date: 30 July 2016 Signature of candidate DETAILS OF CANDIDATE NOMINATED Title: Mr First Name: Edmund Last Name: Nickless Current position: Retired; Chair, IUGS New Activities Strategic Implementation Committee with responsibility for developing the Resourcing Future Generations initiative Date of birth: 25 January 1947 Gender: Male Address: Geological Society of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BG Country: UK Email Address: edmund@geolsoc.org.uk Phone: +44 (0)20 7434 9944 Fax: +44 (0)20 7439 8975 Nationality: British Languages: English, French PROFILE OF CANDIDATE Summary of academic background (maximum of 15 lines) Edmund Nickless graduated from Queen Mary College, University of London in 1968 with a BSc Honours (Upper Second Class) in Geology. He became a Chartered Geologist in 1990, European Geologist in 2002 and Chartered Scientist in 2004. Positions held (maximum of 15 lines) 2013 to present: Chair, IUGS New Activities Strategic Implementation Committee with responsibility for developing the Resourcing Future Generations initiative. 1997 to 2015: Executive Secretary of the Geological Society of London (GSL); deputy national representative to the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) and national point of contact to the IUGS; UK delegate to the Council of the European Federation of Geologists; GSL representative on the Member Society Council of the American Geosciences Institute; chair to the AGI International Geoscience Working Group (2004). 1991 to 1997: Assistant Director, British Geological Survey 1989 to 1991: Environmental Adviser, Science and Technology Secretariat, UK Government Cabinet Office 1983 to 1989: Head of Secretariat, Earth Sciences Division, Natural Environment Research Council 1968 to 1983: Various posts within the British Geological Survey in London and Edinburgh Expertise: (maximum of 15 lines) Edmund Nickless, as Executive Secretary of the Geological Society, had responsibility for 48 staff working at two sites and an annual turnover of circa £5 million. He raised the profile of the Geological Society of London by his participation in international meetings over many years. He has been a Board Member of the Science Council which brings together UK learned societies and professional bodies across the sciences and chaired their Diversity Charter Task Group. His previous role with the British Geological Survey involved the scientific management nad direction of about 150 staff. At the Cabinet Office, his prime responsibility was providing advice to UK government Ministers. These roles have provided Edmund Nickless with a wealth of experience in the politics of the geosciences. Experience with IUGS and/or its affiliated bodies with dates (maximum of 15 lines) Edmund Nickless has been the permanent representative of the UK’s National Committee at IUGS committee meetings for many years. He has attended all IGC meetings since 2000 (at Rio). He has taken on several key international roles in the promotion of the geosciences, notably as a Board Member for the International Year of Planet Earth and of the Global Geosciences Initiative, and most recently by chairing the NASIC Resourcing Future Generations initiative. He has worked over a number of years with the IGCP staff members at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and with the IUGS Executive Committee. ___________________________ Required attachments: - For any position: Curriculum Vitae of the candidate (no more than 4 pages) recording personal data, scientific achievements in geological sciences, experience in administration of scientific organizations - Possibly, for the position of President, Secretary General or Treasurer: Engagement of a national or international body ready to provide an infrastructural support to the candidate if elected as officer. CURRICULUM VITAE EDMUND FRANCIS PAUL NICKLESS DATE OF BIRTH 25 January 1947 NATIONALITY BRITISH QUALIFICATIONS 1968 BSc Honours, Upper Second Class, Geology, Queen Mary College, University of London LANGUAGES French (Basic) PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS 1966 Member, Geologists’ Association 1970 Member, Quaternary Research Association 1971 Fellow, Geological Society of London 1976 Member, Edinburgh Geological Society 1977 to 1980 Member of Council, EGS 1986 Corporate Member Inst. of Geologists 1990 Chartered Geologist, Geological Society of London 2002 European Geologist 2004 Chartered Scientist CURRENT POSITION Retired as from 1 October 2015. 2013 to present: Chair, IUGS New Activities Strategic Implementation Committee with responsibility for developing the Resourcing Future Generations initiative. 1997 to 30 September 2015: Executive Secretary (Executive Director) of The Geological Society of London (GSL) with a membership of 12000 and annual turnover of c£7.5m. Responsible for a permanent staff of 54; delivery of Council’s approved programme of work within budget and to time; for oversight of the continuing refurbishment of the Society’s apartments; development of the Lyell Centre/Collection (an electronic library containing the online library catalogue and the electronic archive back to 1845 of most of the material ever published by GSL). Founding member and former Board member and vice-Chair of GeoScienceWorld, a 2004 start up, not-for-profit, online electronic aggregate of then 35 journals from 22 learned society publishers with a turnover of $2m in fiscal 2006; former member of GSW Advisory Council. Member of British Geological Survey Board (2009 to 2011). Trustee (Board member) of Science Council (2007 to 2011 and 2012 to 2016); former Chair and currently member of Nominations Committee; former member of HR and Remuneration group; currently member of Membership working group and Diversity, Equality and Inclusion strategy group. Member of YES Network Senior Advisory Team. Board member and Senior Adviser to International Year of Planet Earth, 2006 to 2010. Currently Senior Adviser to Earth Science Matters (Foundation). Until September 2015, I served as the permanent UK representative to IUGS and have represented GSL on the Member Council of the American Geosciences Institute and various working groups, and the Associated Societies committee of the Geological Society of America. PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE 1991 to 1997 British Geological Survey, Assistant Director and Head of Corporate Coordination and Information Scientific management and direction of about 150 staff with a then annual FEC cost of about £4m. Principal responsibilities included the storage and dissemination of BGS data, whether analogue or digital; the identification and implementation of a corporate Information strategy within an agreed data architecture; development of new geoscientific map and database products; introduction of digital methods to the production of maps and books; the introduction of a new series of popular publications; the marketing and sales of BGS published products including the development of a retail network. 1989 to 1991 Cabinet Office Seconded to the then Science and Technology secretariat of the Cabinet Office. Prime responsibility was to provide advice on environment matters to Ministers through the Chief Scientific Adviser and to act as the main source of expertise within the Secretariat on environmental matters including the preparation of position papers and briefing. Much of the work focussed on the White Paper on the Environment (published September 1990) and in determining, for the first time, the extent of public sector spend on environmental research. This involved extensive consultation with government departments, research councils and public sector agencies, as well as non-governmental organisations including advocacy groups. Other responsibilities included leading on research issues arising from the Human Embryology and Fertilisation Bill; aspects of biotechnology, specifically issues relating to the intentional release into the environment of genetically modified organisms and the possible introduction by the EC of a fourth hurdle in product approval; ethical considerations in the biomedical and environmental fields; HIV Aids; monitoring Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; space policy and in particular issues surrounding charging for satellitesensed data; development of policy on environmental monitoring; and encouragement of the take up of cleaner technology. Also primary point of contact within the S&T Secretariat with departments and research councils on environmental matters, and with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Department of Health on all science and technology issues except for equipment and pharmaceuticals; and as assessor on the Advisory Council on Science and Technology and the Coordinating Committee on Marine Science and Technology Environment Committee and working parties. 1985 to 1989 NERC HQ Member of the Earth Sciences Directorate. Until July 1986 was Secretary to the Geological Sciences research Grants and Training Awards Committees. Responsibilities included Secretary to the Earth Sciences Committee, scientific administration of the Deep Geology and Ocean Drilling Programmes, in addition to the Earth Sciences Directorate Special Topic Programmes (Geodesy, Fluid Processes, ODP and BGS/Academic Geological Mapping). The work included identification of scientific priorities, management of research programmes with a budget in the order of £1.5 million, extensive consultation and liaison with NERC institutes and government departments, and for representing Council and its policies in the university scientific community. Also pro active encouragement of university research proposals including BRIDGE (mid ocean ridge initiative), ODP shipboard land-based research (for example Atlantic drilling and the multidisciplinary, multi- institutional leg 112 consortium) and new initiatives in deep drilling, mineral physics of ice sheet modelling and palaeoclimatology. 1983 to 1985 NERC HQ Transferred to NERC HQ as a member of the Earth Sciences Section of the Science Division with the specific responsibilities as Secretary to the Geological Sciences Research Grants and Training Awards Committees. Also Secretary to the Deep Geology and British Reflections Profiling Syndicate Advisory Committee, and to the UK Ocean Drilling Programme Coordinating Committee. 1968 to 1983 British Geological Survey Various research scientist posts within the British Geological Survey in London and Edinburgh primarily concerned with resource assessment of bulk minerals, environmental geology and land-use planning. PUBLICATIONS 2015 Nickless, E., Ali, S., Arndt, N., Brown, G., Demetriades, A., Durrheim, R., Enriquez M.A., Giurco, D., Kinnaird, J., Littleboy, A., Masotti, F., Meinert, L., Nyanganyura, D., Oberhänsli, R., Salem, J., Schneider, G., Yakovleva., N. Resourcing Future Generations: A Global Effort to Meet The World's Future Needs Head-on. International Union of Geological Sciences, 78pp. 2014 Nickless, E., Bloodworth, A., Meinert, L., Giurco, D., Mohr, S., Littleboy, A. Resourcing Future Generations White Paper: Mineral Resources and Future Supply. International Union of Geological Sciences, 38pp. 1994 Nickless, E.F.P. and Jackson, I. Digital geological map production in the United Kingdom – more than a cartographic exercise. Episodes, Vol 17, No 3, 51-55 1994 Nickless E.F.P. Digital geological map production – the UK experience. Paper to the IUGS General Assembly, Paris, February 1994. 1993 Nickless, E.F.P. and Jackson, I. Digital map production in the UK – more than a cartographic exercise. Proceedings Cartographic Conference, Cologne, May 1993. 1992 Nickless, E.F.P. The geological map and its development over time. Contribution to Royal Society seminar 1989 Nickless, E.F.P. Contribution to the economic geology section of the Norwich Sheet 161 Memoir. 1886 Nickless, E.F.P. Geology and land-use: some recent developments in maps of the Institute of Geological Sciences in Land and its changing uses – actual and potential (an environmental appraisal. Plenum Publications (New York). 51-74. 1985 Nickless, E.F.P., Sabine, P.A. and Monro, S.K. Cartes geologiques d’enivironement en Grande-Bretagne. Hydrogeologie, 2W, 169-178. 1983 Nickless, E.F.P. Environmental Geology Mapping. Mineral Planning. 1982 Nickless, E.F.P. Environmental Geology of the Glenrothes district, Fife Region. Description of 1:25 000 sheet No 20. Rep. Inst. Geol. Sci. No 82/15, 53pp. 1981 Nickless, E.F.P. and Shaw, A.J. The sand and gravel resources of the valley of the Douglass water, Strathclyde Region. Miner. Assess. Rep. Inst. Geol. Sci. No.63, 95pp. 1980 Nickless, E.F.P. and Laxton, J.L. The sand and gravel resources of the country around Lanmark, Strathclyde Region. Miner. Assess. Rep. Inst. Geol. Sci. No.49, 144pp. and 12 others prior to 1980