Judith Rees

Who is Judith Rees?

Dame Judith Anne Rees, DBE was Interim Director of London School of Economics and Political Science from May 2011 until September 2012 following the resignation of Sir Howard Davies from the position on 3 March 2011 following concern over the institution's decision to accept funding from a foundation controlled by the Libyan leader's son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, and over the LSE Libya Links. She was replaced by Professor Craig Calhoun who was appointed in November 2011.

Rees joined LSE in 1969 as a Lecturer in Geography. Her main research interests include climate change and the governance of environmental resources and risk.

Rees is also Chair of the LSE's Grantham Institute on Climate Change, a board member of the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation and the International Scientific Advisory Council, a director of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, and a Member of the Dutch national research programmes on Climate changes Spatial Planning and "Knowledge for Climate". Formerly, she acted as an adviser to the World Bank on water privatisation.

She already acted as a Deputy Director of the School from 1998 until 2004.