Charles Warren graduated from the University of Oxford in 1985 with a First Class Honours degree in Geography before gaining an M.Sc. and a Ph.D at the University of Edinburgh. He then moved to St Andrews in 1995. Having begun his career researching the climatic response of glaciers in Patagonia, Nepal and New Zealand, his interests now lie in the field of environmental management. He has written widely on Scottish land use issues, notably in his book Managing Scotland’s Environment (EUP, 2nd edition, 2009) and in the edited volume Lairds, Land and Sustainability: Scottish perspectives on upland management (EUP, 2013). He is married to Sarah, and they have two adult children. He is an active member of the local church, a keen hillwalker and loves spending time in wild mountain environments.