PGE/REWE 2015

Malcolm Grimston
Senior Research Fellow
Imperial College London


Educated at Scarborough College and Magdalene College, Cambridge, graduating in 1979 having read Natural Sciences and specialised in psychology. He worked as a chemistry teacher before joining the UK Atomic Energy Authority in 1987. In 1995 he joined Imperial College as a Senior Research Fellow and in 1999 became a Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House, where he is now an Associate Fellow. He is a regular media contributor on energy and nuclear matters, notably during the 2011 crisis at Fukushima. Among his publications are two books co-written with the late Peter Beck: Double or Quits – the global future of civil nuclear energy and Civil nuclear energy – fuel of the future or relic of the past? Recent major papers include Electricity – social service or market commodity (2010); Have we been here before – nuclear power after Fukushima (2012); The full costs of electricity (2014); The siting of nuclear power installations (2014). From 2007 to 2011 he was part of a consortium carrying out a government-funded project on sustainable nuclear energy. He is currently writing a book on why it is all but impossible to take any decisions at all in the energy field. Since 1994 he has been an elected Councillor (local government) in Wandsworth, southwest London, where he has at various times held executive responsibility for environment, education and housing.

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