Speaker profiles

Keynote speakers

Prof. Chris Jackson

Prof. Chris Jackson is Technical Director of Subsurface Storage at WSP and Visiting Professor, Imperial College, London. Prof. Jackson’s career has spanned academia and industry. In his current role, he is responsible for developing and delivering energy transition-related projects focused on geoenergy and geostorage. He is a noted geoscience communicator and has appeared in several Earth science focused TV programmes. Prof. Jackson has received many awards including the Geological Society of London’s Coke Medal and the AAPG’s Geoscience in the Media Award.

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Prof. Kikki Kleiven

Dr. Kikki Flesche Kleiven is Director at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research at the University of Bergen. Kleiven is a marine geologist by training with a particular expertise in paleoceanography, reconstructing past ocean and climate variability. Kleiven has led and participated in several international projects and scientific expeditions in the Atlantic, Arctic and Southern Oceans. Kikki is a renowned public speaker delivering presentations extolling importance of climate awareness. For almost two decades Kleiven has collaborated with the Ministry of Climate and Environment and the Norwegian Environment Agency on national climate lecture campaigns. She is widely used as a climate expert by media and various stakeholder groups and has received several awards for her outreach.

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Prof. Murray Hitzman

Murray W. Hitzman is Director of iCRAG and a Science Foundation Ireland Research Professor. Murray has B.A. degrees in geology and anthropology from Dartmouth College, an M.S. in geology from University of Washington, and a Ph.D. in geology from Stanford University. He worked in the petroleum and minerals industries from 1976 to 1993 primarily doing mineral exploration worldwide. Dr. Hitzman then served in Washington, D.C., as a policy analyst in the U.S. Senate for Senator Joseph Lieberman and in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In 1996 he was named the Fogarty Professor in Economic Geology at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) and served as head of the Department of Geology and Geological Engineering from 2002-07. In 2016 he joined the U.S. Geological Survey as the Associate Director for Energy and Minerals and served until late December 2017. He joined UCD and iCRAG in 2018.

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