Malcolm Charles Grimston (born 1 May 1958) is a British advocate of nuclear power, and is also a scientific author, based at the Centre for Energy Policy and Technology at Imperial College London.[1] He has featured extensively on British television and radio in context of the latest new-build power stations for nuclear power in the United Kingdom.
Grimston was born in Cleethorpes, now in North East Lincolnshire, then in Lindsey.[citation needed] He grew up in North Yorkshire, attending the independent Scarborough College. He studied natural sciences at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1979.[citation needed] He subsequently took a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE), again at Magdalene Cambridge.
Grimston taught chemistry for seven years from 1980, at Stowe and Millfield schools.[citation needed] From 1987-92 he was an information officer at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA).[citation needed] From 1992-95 he was an information officer at the British Nuclear Industry Forum (now called the Nuclear Industry Association).[citation needed] From 1999-2002 he was also at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, also known as Chatham House.[2]
Since 1995, Grimston has worked at the Imperial Centre for Energy Policy and Technology at Imperial College, as a senior research fellow until 1999 and an honorary senior research fellow since then.[citation needed]
Grimston lives in Wandsworth. He is a councillor on Wandsworth London Borough Council,[3] where he has represented West Hill ward since 1994. In 2014, he left the Conservative Party to sit as an Independent.
In 2018, he was re-elected with 4,002 votes. This was the highest individual result recorded for any candidate in Wandsworth and in Greater London.