Malcolm Grimston

Honorary Fellow at Imperial College London Centre for Environmental Policy

Malcolm Grimston was educated at Scarborough College and Magdalene, Cambridge, graduating in 1979 having read Natural Sciences and specialised in psychology. He worked as a chemistry teacher before joining the 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 recent crisis at Fukushima in Japan. 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? His latest paper, Electricity – social service or market commodity was published in July 2010; he is currently part of a consortium carrying out a government-funded project on sustainable nuclear energy.