cc: f.woodhams@uea,colin.davis@uea,j.brind@uea,a.ogden@uea
date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:20:56 +0100
from: Trevor Davies <t.d.davies@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Private Foundation
to: env.faculty@uea,a.blanchflower@uea,e.reynolds@uea,f.vine@uea, k.clayton@uea,b.funnell@uea

PLEASE DO NOT DISCUSS THIS INFORMATION OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL BEFORE FRIDAY

Mr Frank Jackson, founder of the Jackson Foundation, will attend the last
session of the Zuckerman Symposium. He will be joined by the two trustees
(Ms Susan Perry and Mr Colin Jenkins). He has agreed that his intended
support for environmental sciences research may be announced at the
Symposium. The VC will make the announcement just before the end of the
session.

Mr Jackson supported the Jackson Environment Institute at UCL from 1995. Mr
Jackson intends to re-establish the JEI with ENV from this year. For the
time being, it will still be referred to as the JEI. It is anticipated that
it will have a core staff, and maintain a strong identity in the same way
that CRU, CSERGE, CER do.

The UEA Research and Business Development Office has been negotiating with
the Jackson Foundation for the last two months over the precise details of
the support, which have still to be finalised. However, it is anticipated
that the support resulting from this arrangement will amount to around 5
million pounds over the initial five years of the agreement. Both parties
anticipate that funding will continue well beyond this initial period.

UEA will send out a brief press announcement on Thursday. A bigger,
set-piece launch is planned for later in the year.

The current Director of the JEI at UCL, Prof Martin Parry OBE - who works
mainly in the area of climate change impacts - will join ENV. It is
possible that one or two other existing JEI staff will also be joining us.

I will email other ENV staff later this morning.

I will arrange a meeting within the next week or so, to give us all the
opportunity of discussing JEI joining ENV

PLEASE DO NOT DISCUSS OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL UNTIL FRIDAY

Trevor


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Professor Trevor D. Davies
Dean, School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ
United Kingdom

Tel.  +44 1603 592836
Fax.  +44 1603 507719
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