# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nigel-thrift
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:01:25.964Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nigel-thrift"
name: "Nigel Thrift"
slug: "nigel-thrift"
description: "Sir Nigel John Thrift is a British academic and geographer. In 2018 he was appointed as Chair of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management, a committee that gives independent scientific and technical advice on radioactive waste to the UK government and the devolved administrations. He is a visiting professor at the University of Oxford and Tsinghua University and an emeritus professor at the University of Bristol. In 2016 and 2017 he was the executive director of the Schwarzman Scholars, an international leadership program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick from 2006 to 2016. He is a leading academic in the fields of human geography and the social sciences."
tagline: "British human geographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nigel_John_Thrift%2C_2011.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1949-10-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.837837837837838
  historical:           5.280022666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Nigel Thrift"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "নাইজেল থ্রিফ্‌ট"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nigel Thrift"
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  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Thrift"
    title: "Nigel Thrift"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Thrift"
    title: "Nigel Thrift"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Thrift"
    title: "Nigel Thrift"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7032677"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump