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Dr.
Murray C. Simpson is a Senior Research Associate at Oxford
University Centre for the Environment, Associate Professor
at the Estonian University of Life Sciences, Treasurer and
Committee Member of the UK Committee on the Human
Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (UK and
International), and works as a private consultant. He has
extensive experience in sustainable development, tourism,
climate change and the environment and has worked at chief
executive management level in private industry and in the
public sector at board level.
Murray
has worked with the public and the private sector in a
range of initiatives including sustainable tourism
development, tourism strategy, tourism analysis and climate
change adaptation and mitigation projects in
developed and developing countries, and in small island
states; bridging the gap between research, policy and
implementation.
He
is lead author and director for the UNEP-Oxford
University-UNWTO-WMO publication and forthcoming capacity
building seminar, ‘Climate Change Adaptation and
Mitigation in the Tourism Sector: Frameworks, Tools and
Practices’.
Murray
is lead author of the ‘Report on the International
Policy and Market Response to Global Warming and the
Challenges and Opportunities that Climate Change Issues
Present for the Caribbean Tourism Sector’. He is also
lead author of the ‘Adaptation in Destinations’
chapter and co-author of the UNWTO-UNEP-WMO technical
report, ‘Climate Change and Tourism: Responding to
Global Challenges’.
Murray
has worked in Europe,
UK
,
Australasia
,
South Africa
, the
USA
, Asia, South America and the
Caribbean
. International organizations he has worked with include
United Nations agencies, European Development Fund, the
Association of Caribbean States, the European Union and
the European Travel Commission. He is a fellow of the
Royal Geographical Society, a founding member of the UK
International Human Dimensions Programme on Global
Environmental Change, a founding member of Experts in
Climate Change and Tourism (eCLAT) and a member of the
United Nations World Tourism Organization Panel of Tourism
Experts.
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