Jim McNeill

Jim McNeill is a British polar explorer, former scientist, presenter and keynote speaker, with nearly 40 years of exploration in the World's extreme environments during which he has witnessed profound changes.

In 2001 McNeill founded Ice Warrior Project, an organisation which gave "ordinary" people the opportunity to become modern-day polar explorers and achieve extraordinary feats of endurance and endeavour on purposeful, worthwhile expeditions of a citizen science nature. In October 2022 the Ice Warrior Project was expanded to become Global Warrior Project to include the other extreme environments Ocean, Desert, Mountain and Jungle.

The next domain was the ocean and the soft launch of Ocean Warrior in January 2023. Tasked with finding out exactly what is happening to our oceans the programme will consist of three vessels undertaking a total of 20,000 nautical miles of sailing expeditions starting in June 2025 and repeated every year for the next 10 years. These will be known as the #ResoluteExpeditions and will bring together a mix of scientists, students and citizen scientists to conduct critical ocean exploration at what undoubtedly is a crucial time. Core partners to date include: Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Marine Biological Association and the University of Plymouth.