Jim Hall FREng FRS is Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks at the University of Oxford. Prof Hall is internationally recognised for his research on risk analysis and decision-making under uncertainty for water resource systems, flood and coastal risk management, infrastructure systems and adaptation to climate change. Professor Hall is a member of the Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology and is a member of the Council of Expert Advisors for the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA). Prof Hall was President of the Institution of Civil Engineers for the year 2024-25. He was a member of the UK independent Committee on Climate Change Adaptation from 2009 to 2019 and was Chair of the Science Advisory Committee of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) from 2020 to 2022. His work has played a significant role in shaping the UK's approach to infrastructure planning and resilience, including leading the development of the National Infrastructure Systems Model (NISMOD) and chairing the UK's Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure (DAFNI). Amongst various distinctions, Prof Hall was awarded the George Stephenson Medal from the Institution of Civil Engineers in 2001 and the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water in 2018. Prof Hall was a

Contributing Author to the Nobel Prize-winning Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In 2010, Prof Hall was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering "for his contribution to the development of methods for flood risk analysis, which underpin approaches for flood risk management in the UK and internationally" and in 2025 was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.

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