Michael Kendall

Mike is director of the Oxford EARTH programme, which looks at equitable and sustainable access to natural resources for the energy transition and net zero. The initiative involves 9 Oxford departments across the physical, life and social sciences.
He is a geophysicist whose work has taken him to the hottest and coldest places on Earth, conducting experiments in places like Ethiopia and the Antarctic. He has studied the Earth from its core to its surface, including work on plate tectonics, volcanoes and ice sheets.