About Professor Malcolm Grant
Malcolm Grant was appointed as the ninth President and Provost
of UCL (University College London) in 2003. He was previously
Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University and a Fellow of Clare
College. UCL was founded in 1826, originally as the University of
London, and was the first university to be founded in England after
Oxford and Cambridge. Today UCL is one of the four principal UK
research-intensive universities.
Professor Grant was born and educated in New Zealand. He is
qualified as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand, and as a
barrister in England and Wales. He is a member of the Middle Temple.
He is an internationally acknowledged specialist in environmental
and planning law and has written several books and papers, including
as editor since 1981 of the Encyclopedia of Planning Law and
Practice, and consulting editor of the Encyclopedia of
Environmental Law. He is an honorary member of both the Royal Town
Planning Institute, and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors;
and is a Life Member of the New Zealand Resource Management Law
Association. He was invested as CBE in 2003 in recognition of his
distinguished services to planning law and local government. In 2004
he was appointed by the French Government to the rank of Officier dans
l’Ordre Nationale de Mérite.
In public service, he has been Chairman (1996-2002) of the Local
Government Commission for England, with responsibility for reviewing
the structure, boundaries and electoral arrangements for local
government in England; Chairman (2000-2005) of the Agriculture and
Environment Biotechnology Commission, which had responsibility for
giving strategic advice to the UK Government on the implications of
biotechnology for agriculture and the environment; Chairman
(2002-2003) of the Steering Board for the UK National Public Debate on
Genetic Modification, and Chairman (1998-2004) of the respective
statutory committees for setting remuneration for members of local
government councils in London, Manchester and Hampshire. He is
currently Chairman of the Standards Committee of the Greater London
Authority; and a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation.
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