Prof Jim Hall
University of Oxford
professor of climate and environmental risks
Prof Jim Hall
Prof Jim Hall is a trustee of the ICE and until recently, held the carbon and climate portfolio.
He’s a professor of climate and environmental risks at the University of Oxford.
His research specialises on risk analysis for water resource systems, flooding and coastal engineering, infrastructure systems and adaptation to climate change.
Prof Hall is a member of the UK prime minister's Council for Science and Technology and is a commissioner of the National Infrastructure Commission.
He was a member of the UK independent Committee on Climate Change Adaptation from 2009 to 2019.
He led the development of the National Infrastructure Systems Model (NISMOD), which was used for the ICE’s influential National Needs Assessment and for the UK’s first National Infrastructure Assessment.
Prof Hall invented, and now chairs, the UK Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure (DAFNI).
Among various distinctions, Hall was awarded the ICE’s George Stephenson Medal in 2001 and the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water in 2018.
He was a contributing author to the Nobel Prize-winning Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
