Andrew Shaw Goudie (born 21 August 1945, in Cheltenham) is a geographer at the University of Oxford specialising in desert geomorphology, dust storms, weathering, and climatic change in the tropics. He is also known for his teaching and best-selling textbooks on human impacts on the environment. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of forty-one books (many of which have appeared in numerous editions) and more than two hundred papers published in learned journals. He combines research and some teaching with administrative roles.

Career

Goudie was educated at Dean Close School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge (BA first class with distinction 1967, MA, PhD 1972). Andrew Goudie was at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford from 1970 to 2003. He was appointed fellow of Hertford College in 1976, was professor of geography in 1984 and was head of the School of Geography from 1984 until 1994. From 1995 until 1997, he was president of the Oxford Development Programme and pro-vice-chancellor of the university. He was master of St Cross College, Oxford. from 2003 to 2011. He has been an honorary secretary and vice president of the Royal Geographical Society, executive secretary and chairman of the British Geomorphical Research Group, a member of the council of the Institute of British Geographers, and president of the Geographical Association. He has also been president of the International Association of Geomorphologists. In 1970, Goudie was elected a Member of the Institute of British Geographers (of which he was later a member of council) and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He was honorary secretary of the Royal Geographical Society from 1980 until 1988 and has been a vice-president of the Society. He has been president of the Geographical Association and of the International Association of Geomorphologists and has served as a delegate to Oxford University Press.

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