Graham Williams was educated at King's School, Chester, and Merton College, Oxford. He was Senior Research Assistant then Senior Scientific Officer at the University of Liverpool Tidal Institute and Observatory from 1963 to 1973, working on the prediction of storm surges. He was Editor of the Cheshire Bird Report between 1964 and 1967. He joined the RSPB in 1973 as Assistant Regional Officer in the Wales Office and is now Senior Reserves Manager (Wales). He was also a member of the British Birds Rarities Committee 1975-1980 and Chairman of the Welsh Ornithological Society, 1993.
