Richard Washington

Richard Washington is a South African climate scientist and meteorologist. He is Professor of Climate Science at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, as well as being the Director of the Radcliffe Meteorological Station, which has the longest single-site weather records in the United Kingdom. He is a fellow of Keble College, Oxford. Background Washington has been involved in a number of major projects in the field of climatology, specialising in African climate science. He gained degrees from the University of Natal and the University of Oxford and has taught at the University of Natal, University of Cape Town, Stellenbosch University and the University of Oxford. He served as external examiner on the University of East Anglia climate change MSc programme for several years and has also been the external examiner on a number of undergraduate degree courses in the British Isles. He has examined more than 25 PhD theses. Representation on Science Committees He was a panel member of the World Climate Research Programme African Climate Variability Panel (CLIVAR-VACS) from 2003-2006, before becoming co-chair from 2006-2010 . He is an author of several IPCC reports, including both Working Groups I and II. He also served as a representative for the World Climate Research Program to the International Council for Science in southern Africa, and as a member of multiple external steering committees including the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, The Scientific Steering Group of CLIVAR (World Climate Research Programme), The Met Office Climate Science Research Partnership, African Earth System Science (AFRICANNESS) and the Stockholm Environment Institute. Career Washington took up the position of lecturer at Christ Church college, Oxford in 1993, departmental lecturer in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford in 1995, University Lecturer and Fellow of Keble college in 1999, Readership in 2006, and a Professorship in 2010. In the same year as obtaining professorship he also received the teaching excellence award from The University of Oxford. Washington has supervised more than 20 PhD students to successful completion, almost all of whom have focused on African climate science. He has published more than 130 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals and has a Google Scholar h-index of 54 in 2022.