Prof. Benjamin Horton

Professor Benjamin Horton is Dean of the School of Energy and Environment at City University of Hong Kong and a leading coastal scientist specializing in sea-level change. He has received major accolades from the European Geophysical Union, American Geophysical Union and Geological Society of America. Professor Horton is a Fellow of both the Geological Society of America and the American Geophysical Union. He served as a Review Editor for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report, has been a contributor to the Conference of Parties (COP), and is currently the Principal Investigator of UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development project, promoting global coastal policy through scientific leadership and interdisciplinary research.