1. Steve Rayner was James Martin Professor of Science and Civilization at Oxford University and Director of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, a member of the Oxford Martin School.
14 Facts About Steve Rayner
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Steve Rayner described himself as an "undisciplined social scientist" having been trained in philosophy, comparative religion and political anthropology.
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Steve Rayner was interested in wicked problems, uncomfortable knowledge and clumsy solutions.
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Steve Rayner was principal investigator of the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities and co-director of the Oxford Geoengineering Programme.
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Steve Rayner co-edited, with Elizabeth Malone, of the four volume assessment of social science relevant to understanding climate change and its governance, in addition to maintaining a consistent critique of the mainstream policy architecture for climate policy.
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Steve Rayner expressed concerns about attempts to resolve clashes in values either through appeals to science on the one hand or through extensive public participation on the other.
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Steve Rayner's latter efforts in this area focused on the emerging technologies of climate change geoengineering and he was a co-author on the influential Royal Society report Geoengineering the Climate and lead author of the Oxford Principles for Geoengineering Governance.
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Steve Rayner gave nearly 150 invited lectures and conference presentations on topics such as climate policy, risk and governance, including the Jack Beale Memorial Lecture on Global Environment at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
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Steve Rayner held parallel appointments as Professor of Sociology and as the Chief Social Scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction.
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Steve Rayner was a Professorial Fellow of Keble College and Honorary Professor of Climate Change and Society at the University of Copenhagen.
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Steve Rayner was a Senior Fellow of the Breakthrough Institute, a non-partisan environmental think-tank based in California's Bay Area.
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Steve Rayner was a Member of the Lead Experts Group of the UK Government's Foresight Programme on the Future of Cities.
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Steve Rayner was a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Royal Society of Arts, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Society for Applied Anthropology.
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Steve Rayner's work has been covered by the New York Times, BBC, Economist, New Scientist, Guardian, Nature, Sky News, Globe and Mail and Wired Magazine among others.