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Scottish geologist and professor

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Iain Simpson StewartMBE 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 Geoscie