Matthew England is a Scientia Professor of Climate Dynamics at the University of New South Wales and a former Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow. England's research interests focus on the dynamics of the oceans and their role in climate variability and climate change on time-scales of seasons to millennia, as well as understanding the processes that regulate ocean-ice-atmosphere interactions. England obtained his PhD in physical oceanography and climate modelling from the University of Sydney in 1992 including a stint at GFDL/Princeton as a Fulbright scholar.  He previously graduated with BSc (1st Class Honours and the University Medal) from Sydney University in 1987. After completing an EU Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the CNRS in France during 1992-1994, England worked as a Research Scientist at CSIRO within the Climate Change Research Program during 1994-1995. Since 1995 he has lectured in the physics of the ocean and climate system at the University of New South Wales.  His work aims to understand the ocean’s role in global climate, past, present and future.  He has authored / co-authored almost 200 peer-review journal publications.  In 2014 England was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, and in 2016 a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. He was the founding Director of the UNSW Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC) and is currently the Deputy Director of the national ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science.