Iain Stewart (geologist)

Iain Stewart
Born	1964 (age 60–61) East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
Nationality	Scottish
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Alma mater	University of Strathclyde, Bristol University
Known for	Earth: The Power of the Planet Rise of the Continents Journeys From the Centre of the Earth Rough Science How Earth Made Us BBC Horizon
Scientific career
Fields	Geology
Institutions	University of Plymouth, West London Institute of Higher Education, Brunel University
Thesis	The evolution of neotectonic normal fault scarps in the Aegean Region (1990)
Doctoral advisor	Paul Hancock John Thornes
Website	www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/istewart twitter.com/Profiainstewart

Iain Simpson Stewart MBE FGS FRSE (born 1964)^[1] 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.^[2] Described as geology's "rock star",^[3] Stewart is best known to the public as the presenter of a number of science programmes for the BBC, notably the BAFTA nominated^[4] Earth: The Power of the Planet (2007).

He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, the Royal Society of Edinburgh,^[5] 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 Professor of Geoscience Communication there, in addition to his role as co-Director of the Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability at Ashoka University.^{[citation needed]}