Professor Andrew S. Goudie is former Master of St Cross College, Oxford, and since 1984 has been Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. He has been President of the International Association of Geomorphologists, has a DSc from the University of Oxford, is an Honorary Fellow of Hertford College, and is a recipient of the Founder’s Medal of the RGS and of the Mungo Park Award of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. In 2007 he received the Farouk El-Baz Award for Desert Research from the Geological Society of America.