Gordon D. Thompson,

Executive Director

Gordon D. Thompson, Phil., is currently the executive director of Institute for Resource and Security Studies in Cambridge, MA. In addition, he serves as Research Professor, George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University, Worcester, Massachussetts.  He was educated in Australia and the UK, in engineering and science, obtaining his doctorate from Oxford University in 1973. Dr. Thompson has been based in the United States since 1979. Over the past three decades he has acquired wide experience with natural resource and international security issues. One of his major interests has been the environmental and security impacts of nuclear technologies. Dr. Thompson has coordinated multidisciplinary teams, organized international conferences and provided expert testimony in a variety of contexts.