David Morphet

David Morphet is a poet and writer who has worked in the Diplomatic Service, the Department of Energy and private industry.

From King James's Grammar School, Almondbury, he went on a history scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge, where he gained a Double First in English and became co-editor of the literary magazine Delta.

As governor at the IAEA, he attended the agency's Post-Accident Review Meeting following the Chernobyl disaster, and initiated safety discussions between the UK Nuclear Installations Inspectorate and its equivalents in Eastern Europe.

Moving to the private sector in 1989, he held senior positions in the power and construction companies BICC and Balfour Beatty and served on the council of the CBI.

[5] He has written a series of poems on Dentdale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, with which both he and his wife have family associations.