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 and has been a contributor to the Conference of
Parties (COP), promoting global coastal policy through scientific leadership and interdisciplinary
research.
