Brian Clark is a specialist in environmental impact assessment and strategic environmental assessment, urban and rural planning and environmental management. His initial research at Glasgow University was on regional development policy and mobility of industry in the UK and urban deprivation followed by research at Durham University on urban planning in Iran, Iraq and the Gulf States. Brian moved to Aberdeen University in 1971 to direct the MSc in Rural and Regional Resources Planning and he established the Centre for Environmental Management and Planning (CEMP), which won national and international awards for consultancy, research and training in EIA, SEA, Sustainability and Environmental Management.
Brian has acted as a consultant to, and served on the Boards, of numerous national and international organisations and in 1987 was made a founder member of UNEP's Global 500 Award for his services towards environmental management. Brian was awarded an MBE in 2006. Latterly, he was a Board Member of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and a Board member and Chair of the Advisory Committee on Science of the James Hutton Institute from its establishment in 2011 until 2017.
