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Professor Brian Wilkinson, BscEng, BscGeol, PhD, FICE, FCIWEM, FGS, C Eng, C Geol, F Russ Acad.Nat.Sci. Professor Wilkinson is an environmental engineer, geologist and surface and ground water hydrologist with 40 years experience. He is currently Visiting Professor at the Universities of Reading and Newcastle upon Tyne and an independent consultant. His PhD from University of Manchester[1968] was in Soil Mechanics. He has worked with consulting engineers on the design and construction of large dams and water supply projects and was a Senior Engineer at the Water Resources Board[1969 to 1974]. As Head of the Water Resources Division of the UK Water Research Centre he led a wide range of research projects. From 1984 to 1989 he was Professor of Civil Engineering at Cranfield University. In 1989 he was appointed Director of the Institute of Hydrology and in 1995, became the first Director of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology with responsibility for a £30m pa research budget. During this time he was UK Government Hydrological Adviser to the World Meteorological Organisation Commission for Hydrology and the UK Science Representative and Leader of the UK Science Delegation to the 1997 UNESCO General Conference. He was a founder member of the European Water Research Directors' group EURAQUA. Recently he has been involved in assessment and monitoring of the £1bn EC environmental research programme and has led a UNESCO International Review Panel examining the environmental impacts of proposed uranium mining in a major World Heritage site in Australia. He has published some 80 papers and edited several books.