Donald Bruce Dingwell FRSC OC (born 1958 in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada) is a geoscientist, the director of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences[1] and Ordinarius for Mineralogy and Petrology of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He is also currently vice-president of the Academia Europaea. From September 2011 to December 2013 he was the 3rd and last secretary general of the European Research Council (ERC)[2] where he embarked on a global participation campaign for the ERC.[3] He is also a past-President of the European Geosciences Union[4] and the current past-president of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI), founded in 1919.