Dr David Lowry

Dr David Lowry is an independent research consultant with specialist knowledge of UK and EU nuclear & environment policy. He is currently a London-based senior research fellow with Institute for Resource and Security Studies in Cambridge, Ma USA He was a member of the UK Energy Secretary's Geological Disposal Implementation Board from 2012-2014 David is one of three co-authors of a book, The International Politics of Nuclear Waste, covering France, Germany, Sweden, UK and USA, published by Macmillan press (1991). Since 1992, David Lowry has prepared over 20,000 parliamentary questions for UK MPs, and MEPs from UK, Ireland and Germany, drafted motions for resolution, speeches and articles on their behalf, suggested amendments to Euro-Parliament reports and researched, drafted and steered through to successful European Parliament Plenary Assembly endorsement two committee reports. Up to the 1997 UK General Election David Lowry acted as policy adviser and researcher for former UK environment minister Michael Meacher MP (when he was shadow Secretary of State for Environmental Protection). In 2000-01 he was a contributing author to a major report on the environmental and health implication of nuclear reprocessing at La Hague & Sellafield for the Science & Technology Options Assessment (STOA) programme of the European Parliament (2000-01), acted as a contributing editor of Plutonium Investigation (www.pu-investigation.org 1999-00) and contributed to an international scientific and policy study project on plutonium fuel (International MOX Assessment IMA Project 1995-97). In 2014 he wrote a briefing for the World Institute for Nuclear Security (WINS) in Vienna on the security of dry storage of spent nuclear fuel (SNF); in 2016 he has prepared a briefing on Nuclear Insecurities in the UK He has lectured for several summers on Energy at an MSc course at Reading University, an MBA course for BNFL middle managers at Lancaster University and conducted sponsored research in France, Germany and Japan for an ESRC on global environmental change for the Open University (UK). He is currently a senior research fellow at the Institute for Resource and Security Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA David Lowry was awarded a PhD on nuclear decision making by the Open University in 1987. He previously studied at the State University of New York (1978-79) and the London School of Economics, London University (1975-78). In 2001 he was presented with a special award for education at the Nuclear Free Future Foundation annual awards and the UK Campaign for Freedom of Information 1995 Award in the politics category (jointly with Llew Smith MP).