Myles Allen

Education Allen was educated at the British School in the Netherlands He was a student of St. John's College, Oxford. He is the Director of the Oxford Net Zero initiative and a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.

Allen has worked at the Energy Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. and was a Review Editor for the chapter on predictions of global climate change for the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and a co-author of the IPCC October 8, 2018 Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C. His research focuses on the attribution of recent climate change and assessing what these changes mean for global climate simulations of the future.

Allen also provided the technical expertise for the game Fate of the World, which is "a PC strategy game that simulates the real social and environmental impact of global climate change over the next 200 years". In 2015, he mentioned that carbon capture and storage (CCS) should be made mandatory.

Awards and honours In 2010, Allen was awarded the Edward Appleton Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics for "his important contributions to the detection and attribution of human influence on climate and quantifying uncertainty in climate predictions". Allen was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to climate change attribution and prediction and net-zero. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2023.

Personal life Allen married Irene Tracey in 1994 and has three children.