Gordon R. Thompson

Gordon R. Thompson, D.Phil., is the executive director of IRSS. He was educated in Australia and the UK, in engineering and science, obtaining his doctorate from Oxford University in 1973. Dr. Thompson has been based in the United States since 1979. Over the past three decades he has acquired wide experience with natural resource, international security, and sustainability issues. One of his areas of interest is the impacts of nuclear technologies and the opportunities to limit those impacts. Dr. Thompson has coordinated multidisciplinary teams, organized international conferences, and provided expert testimony in a variety of contexts. Gordon Thompson is also a senior research scientist at the George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University. His research addresses diverse technical and policy issues relevant to global human security and the pursuit of a sustainable civilization. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.