David Ovadia
Director of Resources and Business

David Ovadia joined the British Geological Survey in 1991 and was appointed to the post of Head of International in 2000. He has worked on BGS projects in Botswana, Zimbabwe, Egypt and Papua New Guinea. He is currently the NERC nominee non-executive director of the Rainbow Seed Fund and is a Chartered Engineer. He graduated in geology and physics from the University of Liverpool and did postgraduate research at the University of Birmingham before joining the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, now the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, in 1978. He worked on air-sea interaction numerical modelling for a number of years and, in 1987, he was appointed to manage NERC's corporate computer services. During the 1980s and1990s he held part time lecturing posts at the Open University and the University of Nottingham, where he was also an external examiner.