Professor Ralph Rayner

Ralph Rayner is a Professorial Research Fellow at the London School of Economics in the Centre for Analysis of Time Series and is Sector Director, Energy and Environment for the BMT Group. 

He is responsible for industry outreach for the Integrated Ocean Observing System at the United States Consortium for Ocean Leadership and serves as a non executive director with a number of specialist ocean science and technology businesses.

He previously held the position of Deputy Director of Ocean.US following more than twenty five years global experience in commercial operational oceanography. 

During his career he has created and developed a number of leading oceanographic service companies providing systems and consultancy to the maritime industries and governments worldwide.

Ralph has a BSc in Biology, an MSc in Underwater Science and Technology and a PhD in physical oceanography.  

He is a Vice President of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology, a current member of the Council of the Society for Underwater Technology and an Executive Council member of the Association of Marine Scientific Industries. 

He chairs the Global Ocean Observing System Scientific Steering Committee, is a member of the Marine Technology Society Ocean Observing Systems Committee and the expert committee of the European Marine Observation and Data Network. 

He contributes to a number of international research programmes concerned with understanding and predicting the ocean environment.

He has authored numerous marine scientific papers and reports and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Operational Oceanography.