Biography
Iain Simpson Stewart (born 1964) is a Scottish geologist who is currently Jordan-UK El Hassan bin Talal Research Chair in Sustainability at the Royal Scientific Society in Jordan. He is a UNESCO Chair in Geoscience and Society and formerly a member of the Scientific Board of UNESCO's International Geoscience Programme. Described as geology's "rock star", Stewart is best known to the public as the presenter of a number of science programmes for the BBC, notably the BAFTA nominated Earth: The Power of the Planet (2007).
He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and President of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Until 2021 he was Director of the Sustainable Earth Institute at University of Plymouth and remains a of Professor of Geoscience Communication there, in addition to his role as co-Director of the Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability at Ashoka University.
Filmography
all 23
self 21
TV Shows 17
Movies 6
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022)
Ancient Apocalypse (2021)
Scotland's First Oil Rush (2016)
Scotland's Einstein: James Clerk Maxwell - The Man Who Changed the World (2015)
Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World (2015)
Rise of the Continents (2013)
Volcano Live (2012)
How to Grow a Planet (2012)
How to Grow a Planet (2012)
Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV (2010)
Men of Rock (2010)
Making Scotland's Landscape (2010)
How Earth Made Us (2010)
Hot Planet (2009)
Earth: The Climate Wars (2008)
10 Things You Didn't Know About... (2008)
Earth: The Power of the Planet (2007)
Earth: The Power of the Planet (2007)
Journeys into the Ring of Fire (2006)
Journeys from the Centre of the Earth (2004)
Naked Science (2004)
Rough Science (2000)
Horizon (1964)
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GenderMale
Birthday1964-01-01 (60 years old)
Birth PlaceEast Kilbride, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
ResidencesPlymouth, United Kingdom
Also Known AsDr Iain Stewart, Dr. Iain Stewart, Prof Iain Stewart, Professor Iain Stewart
AwardsMember of the Order of the British Empire
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