IAQM AGM 2026 and keynote speech
This event is only for IAQM members
Join us for the IAQM’s 2026 virtual Annual General Meeting (AGM). We will be announcing the results of the IAQM Committee election.
You will have the opportunity to hear about the IAQM’s strategic direction, activities over the past year, and welcome your new Committee members.
The AGM will be followed by a keynote speech from our newly elected Honorary Fellow Prof David Carslaw:
A short history of the urban NO2 problem from the 1970s to the current day
Nitrogen dioxide air pollution became a priority focus in the latter parts of the 20th century and early 21st century. It's a story of many twists and turns involving fuels, technology and chemistry. But it is also a story of unintended consequences, claims that London had the highest NO2 in the world, insults from Boris Johnson - and of course Dieselgate. I will highlight how the story unfolded and the lessons learned from a science and policy perspective.
Event schedule
12:00: AGM, including update from IAQM Chair Sarah Horrocks
12:30: Keynote speech from newly elected Honorary Fellow
13:10: Discussion
13:30: Plenary and close
About our speaker
David Carslaw holds a joint position between the University of York's Department of Chemistry, where he is Professor of Urban Air Pollution, and WSP, where he is a Technical Director. He has a long-standing interest in the impact of road vehicle emissions on urban air quality, leading experimental and analytical work that has quantified the effect of vehicles on concentrations of NO2 and other pollutants. This work has included large-scale vehicle emission remote emission sensing, revealing the gap between real-world and regulated emissions and informing air quality policy. A second major focus has been the development of open-source techniques to derive insights from air pollution measurements. These tools form part of the 'openair' R package family, which is used widely around the world by academics, the public and private sectors. He has been a member of the UK Government's Air Quality Expert Group since 2002.
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