Susan Elizabeth OwensOBEFBAFAcSS (born 24 January 1954) is Emeritus Professor of Environment and Policy,University of Cambridge.^[1] She is Fellow Emerita ofNewnham College.^[2]

Owens was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution that produced the ‘Turning the Tide’ report which addressed the impact of fisheries on the marine environment.^[3]

She is a member of theDEFRA advisory panel on Highly Protected Marine Areas.^[4]

She was educated at theUniversity of East Anglia where she graduated with a BSc and a PhD entitled"The energy implications of alternative rural development patterns" in 1981.^[5] She joined theUniversity of Cambridge as an academic in 1981.

She was a recipient of theRoyal Geographical Society's Back Award in 2000. She was made anOBE in 1998, and a Fellow of theBritish Academy in 2011.

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