Matthew England is Scientia Professor of Ocean & Climate Dynamics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, and the Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science.  England previously held appointments at CSIRO Australia, the CNRS in France, and a Fulbright Scholarship at Princeton University.  His research focuses on large-scale ocean circulation and the influence of the oceans on regional and global climate, from the tropics to the North Atlantic and Antarctica, spanning time-scales of seasons to millennia.