Ian Davison | Geologist | Director
Ian Davison is Joint Managing Director of GEO International Ltd. and Earthmoves Ltd. Ian received a BSc honours degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Leeds, and then went on to complete a PhD on Precambrian mobile belts in Mali, NW Africa at Montpellier and Leeds Universities. After this, he joined the British National Oil Company in Glasgow for three years where he was involved in International Exploration in NW Europe. He then broke from the routine and moved to Salvador in NE Brazil where he lectured in Basin Dynamics, Tectonics and Precambrian Geology for five years. During this time he consulted extensively for Petrobras, and Brazilian mining companies.
He returned to the UK in 1989 and became a Senior Lecturer in Structural Geology at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he directed the Salt Tectonics Research Group. He founded Earthmoves Ltd., in 1990, an international oil exploration consultancy, and has been involved with exploration and salt tectonics consultancy work for over one hundred oil companies exploring the Atlantic margins and Europe in the last 25 years.
Ian has published over sixty papers in scientific journals and books. He speaks fluent French, and Portuguese.