Ken Parsons (born 1953) is an English engineer, now emeritus professor of environmental ergonomics at Loughborough University.
[citation needed] He has been both secretary and chair of the thermal factors committee of the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH), chair of the CNRS advisory committee to the Laboratoire de Physiologie et Psychologie Environmentales in Strasbourg, France, and is a life member of the Indian Ergonomics Society.
He is advisor to the World Health Organization on heatwaves, and a visiting professor to Chongqing University in China, where he has been appointed to the National Centre for International Research of Low Carbon and Green Buildings.
[citation needed] He is co-founder of the UK Indoor Environments Group and a founding member of the UK Clothing Group, the European Society for Protective Clothing, the Network for Comfort and Energy Use in Buildings and the thermal factors scientific committee of the ICOH.
[3] Other positions include: visiting professor of the International Conference on Environmental Ergonomics, co-editor in chief of the Journal of Applied Ergonomics, and posts on the editorial boards of Industrial Health and the Journal of Annals of Occupational Hygiene and Physiological Anthropology.