OREANDA-NEWS. Members of the Geological Society of London have voted Malcolm Brown, BG Group Executive Vice President for Exploration, to be their next President, following a consultative ballot. He will serve for a year as President Designate before taking over from current President, Professor David Manning, in June 2016.

Malcolm has worked at BG Group for over 30 years, leading our exploration efforts for much of the last two decades. After graduating from Kingston Polytechnic in 1976 he worked in Libya and Saudi Arabia before completing an MSc in Petroleum Geology at Imperial College in 1982, and received an Honorary Doctorate from Kingston University in 2007. He is currently on the Advisory Boards of Energy Geoscience International and the Sustainable Gas Institute at Imperial College.

‘It is a great honour to have been voted President Designate by the Society’s Fellowship," says Malcolm, who has been a Fellow of the Society since 1982, and a Chartered Geologist since 2013. "The Geological Society is admired as both a learned society and a professional body, providing impartial advice to those in government and other decision makers, and is a preeminent forum for industry and academic debate. I am committed to maintaining scientific excellence in all its activities during my Presidency."