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Sir Dave King, Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Cambridge; Founder and Chair of the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge, CCRC; Chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group, CCAG: Affiliate Partner of SYSTEMIQ Limited; and Senior Strategy Adviser to the President of Rwanda. He was the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser, 2000-2007 and the Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative on Climate Change, 2013-2017. He has travelled widely to persuade all countries to act on climate change. He initiated an in-depth risk analysis approach to climate change, working with the Governments of China and India in particular, and initiated a collaborative programme, now known as Mission Innovation, to create a publicly funded £23bn pa research and development international exercise, which involves 25 countries and the EU, to deliver all technologies needed to complete the transition into a fossil-fuel-free world economy. As Govt Chief Scientific Adviser he raised the need for governments to act on climate change and was instrumental in creating the British £1 billion Energy Technologies Institute. Sir David was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991; Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002; knighted in 2003; made “Officier dans l’ordre national de la Légion d’Honneur” in 2009; and is The American Association for the Advancement of Science 2022 Hamburg Awardee for Science Diplomacy.