Ian Davison is Managing Director of Earthmoves Ltd. which he co-founded in 1999. Ian received a First Class honours degree in Earth Sciences for 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 decided to take a break 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.

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 Group. Ian has been involved with consultancy work for oil companies exploring in Brazil over the last fifteen years.