cc: , "Flack Chris Mrs \(ENV\)" , "John Schellnhuber" date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 13:19:00 +0100 from: "John Schellnhuber" subject: Re: proposed dinners on Thursday 4th September to: "T Davies" , "'Mike Hulme'" , , Dear Trevor, I had another phone conversation with Sir Cripin the other day, and the present state-of-affairs is like this: He thinks that a Zuckerman Board Preparatory Dinner, chaired by him in a nice place on the evening of 4 September 2003, is a very good idea. He would like to receive from you, however, an official invitation letter skeching the aims and scope of the meeting. I will actually visit Sir Crispin in his Cotswolds home on 16 August, so I could discuss specifics with him already. Of course, we should invite all the people, whom we want to see on the ZB and who are attending the ZICER opening anyway, to the dinner as well, but Sir Crispin may have his own ideas about the composition. I suggest that you list in your letter to him, whom we have in mind so far. I basically agree with the shortlist you presented in your email, but here are a few comments. We clearly need some strong stakeholder involvement at the strategic level, so let us consider only boardroom creatures. Bernie Bulkin from BP would be fine with me - I do not know whether Chris Mottershead from the same company is an alternative. We have to have our VC on board. Bob Watson would be great, but we should also think of either Bill Clark or Steve Schneider - both of them are coming to SD3! Bob Constanza is another option, but how about Sir Eric Ash to represent the RS? So much for now. Others will have other notions - this could be sorted out before and during the dinner. Cheers, John ----- Original Message ----- From: "T Davies" To: "'Mike Hulme'" ; ; ; Cc: ; "Flack Chris Mrs (ENV)" Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 11:23 AM Subject: RE: proposed dinners on Thursday 4th September > I'm happy to arrange a small dinner on 4th - Chris please remind me when > I return. > > In the meantime, we need to ensure that there are no crossed wires over > membership of the ZICER Advisory Board. I sent an email to Kerry & John > yesterday summarising where we are, since life had become a little > complex following Sir Crispin's interventions on our behalf. > > As it stands at the moment: > > Chair Crispin Tickell > David King (invited by CT) > Lord Peyton (invited by CT) > Pentreath (invited by RKT - chair of the CSERGR board) > Paul Ekins (asked informally by TD on RKT's recommendation, now followed > up by a formal invitation) > > Possibles > > Bob Watson (has offered support for ENV) - TD about to invite him to > offer support via membership of ZICER Board > Chair of the TYN advisory board > BP - Bulkin or his colleague who visited) > Someone from AVIVA (I have contact) > Someone from Powergen > > Has someone asked Bill Clark????? > > At this stage, I think it necessary to hold so that we can determine > terms of refs & give Crispin Tickell "ownership" of his board. > > > Trevor > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Hulme [mailto:m.hulme@uea.ac.uk] > Sent: 28 July 2003 17:44 > To: t.oriordan@uea.ac.uk; h.j.Schellnhuber@uea.ac.uk; > t.d.davies@uea.ac.uk; r.k.turner@uea.ac.uk > Cc: laura.middleton@uea.ac.uk > Subject: proposed dinners on Thursday 4th September > Importance: High > > Dear Trevor, Kerry, John and Tim > > Following the SD3 planning last week, I am circulating this email in > relation to the idea for a small dinner on the evening of the ZICER > opening > - i.e., Thursday 4th September. > > This idea comes from two directions - Tim O'Riordan wishing to entertain > a > small number of his guests to the following day's Governance Seminar > supported by the ESRC Science and Society programme (e.g. Steve Rayner, > Bill Clark, Frank Biermann, etc.), and John Schellnhuber suggesting we > make > good use of a few VIPs for ZICER who will be here on the Thursday (e.g. > Sir > Crispin Tickell, Bill Clark, Paul Zuckerman, etc.) re. an embryonic > ZICER > "Council". I believe John has talked with Trevor about this latter > idea. > > Since the purpose of these two small groups is rather different, it > seems > best to keep them separate. It will also be important that Bill Clark > be > invited to the ZICER "council" dinner. > > So this email is simply to make sure that all parties understand the > conversations that have happened and to ensure that suitable liaison > occurs > to avoid confusion. So I think the ball is in Tim's court re. his > "governance" dinner and Trevor, Kerry, and John's court re. the ZICER > dinner. > > Thanks, > > Mike > > >