NOC Advisory Council membership

Professor Dougal Goodman trained as a physicist at Cambridge and worked at the Cavendish Laboratory.  He has undertaken research for BP on offshore structures built in sea ice areas, with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), and the US Antarctic Programme.  He was awarded the Polar Medal in 1998 for his leadership of work in the polar regions.

Professor Goodman worked for BP managing research, as Operations Manager for the Magnus offshore oil field, in group strategy, in refining, as global Head of Safety and in risk management in the Company Secretary’s Department.    He was Deputy Director of BAS for five years and is now Chief Executive of The Foundation for Science and Technology, a charity which works between both Houses of Parliament, Whitehall, business and the research community to promote debate about policy issues.  He is non-executive Chairman of the Lighthill Risk Network which works with the insurance market and research community and advises on strategy and risk for the marine insurance market. 

Professor Goodman has served on the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council peer review panel and Advisory Board of the Cambridge-MIT Institute.  He is a Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Statistical Society, the Institute of Physics, Institution of Civil Engineers and Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and has a visiting chair at the University of Cranfield.

Sir David King is Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford, Director of Research in Physical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, Director of the Collegio Carlo Alberto, Chancellor of the University of Liverpool and a senior scientific adviser to UBS.

He was Chief Scientific Adviser to H.M. Government under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and Head of the Government Office for Science from 2000 to 2007. In that time, he raised the profile of the need for governments to act on climate change and was instrumental in creating the new £1 billion Energy Technologies Institute. In 2008 he co-authored “The Hot Topic” (Bloomsbury 2008) on this subject.  

As Director of the Government’s Foresight Programme, he created an in-depth horizon scanning process which advised government on a wide range of issues. He chaired the government’s Global Science and Innovation Forum from its inception and was heavily involved in the Government’s Science and Innovation Strategy 2004-2014.

After an early career at the University of Witwatersrand, Imperial College and the University of East Anglia, Professor King became the Brunner Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Liverpool in 1974. In 1988 he was appointed 1920 Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and subsequently became Master of Downing College (1995–2000) and Head of the University Chemistry Department (1993–2000).

John Murray is Chief Executive of the Society of Maritime Industries, the national trade association for the UK maritime engineering and business sector, which includes commercial and naval defence shipbuilding markets, marine science and technology, maritime security and safety, ports and terminals infrastructure and offshore energy including renewables.

A graduate chemical engineer, Mr Murray commenced his career in the oil industry.  An active period of trade association involvement, during which time he ran his own company, ultimately led to his being appointed Chief Executive of the Society in April 2001.

Mr Murray currently represents the industry on a number of external bodies including the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills sponsored Maritime Industries Leadership Council, of which he is co-chair of the Technology and Innovation Group; the MSCC Marine Industries Liaison Group; the UKTI sponsored Marine Sector Advisory Group; the Steering Board of the Transport KTN; the European Marine Equipment Council; the Naval Defence Industries Group of ASD Brussels, The Greenwich Forum; Marine Southeast Ltd (as a member of the board) and the Marine Sector Skills Group of SEMTA.

Professor Peter Herzig is the Director and CEO of the GEOMAR | Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, the successor of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) which was founded in January 2004 through the merger of the Institut für Meereskunde (IfM) and the Research Center for Marine Geosciences (GEOMAR). He serves as Maritime Coordinator of the Government of the Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein and was appointed Maritime Ambassador of the European Union in 2007. He is a Senator of the German Science Foundation and in 2000, received the Leibniz Award of the German Science Foundation for his research on seafloor hydrothermal systems. He is a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering and Saxonian Academy of Sciences.

Professor Herzig has participated in numerous oceanographic expeditions, experience with deep diving and remotely operated vehicles and sailed as Chief Scientist for the Ocean Drilling Program.  From 1993-2003, he was Full Professor and Chair of Economic Geology and Petrology and Head of the Leibniz Laboratory for Applied Marine Research at Freiberg University of Mining and Technology in Germany. He served as Dean of the Faculty for Geosciences, Geo-Engineering and Mining from 1997-1999. Following a Visiting Professorship at the Southampton Oceanography Centre, he became Full Professor at the University of Kiel in 2003.

Professor Herzig received his Ph.D. in Geology in 1986. Following an Alexander von Humboldt Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto, he obtained a Research Associate and Assistant Professorship at Aachen University and was Visiting Professor at the Geological Survey of Canada.