Roland Clift

Roland Clift is an English chemical engineering professor, born in 1942, known for his work on sustainability and for engineering approaches to environmental problems. He studied chemical engineering at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with first class honours in 1964, and took a PhD at McGill University in 1970 on particle-fluid interactions, which remained his main research area at McGill, Cambridge and then the University of Surrey, where he became Head of Chemical Engineering in 1981. In 1992 he founded the Centre for Environmental Strategy at Surrey, a multidisciplinary group that advocated clean technology, life cycle assessment and sustainable development. He sat on the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution from 1996 to 2005, was president of the International Society for Industrial Ecology in 2009 and 2010, and was made OBE in 1994 and CBE in 2006. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and co-author of the textbook Bubbles, Drops and Particles.