Honorary Professor in the School of Geography and Sustainable Development at the University  of St Andrews, Scotland. He is a Steering Committee member and a Deputy Chair of the  Geoheritage Specialist Group of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, a member  of the European Federation of Geologists’ Panel of Experts on Geoheritage and a member of  ProGEO, the European Association for the Conservation of the Geological Heritage. He has a PhD  in glacial geomorphology from the University of Aberdeen and is a Fellow of the Royal Scottish  Geographical Society. He worked for over 30 years with the statutory nature conservation  agencies in Great Britain on the assessment and conservation management of geoheritage sites.  He has published widely on his research interests which include geoconservation, geotourism  and mountain and Quaternary geomorphology.