Prof Malhi, the Ecosystems research programme lead at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford has been reappointed to the Natural History Museum Board.
Professor Malhi has officially been appointed for a four-year term which commenced on 13 April 2024.
He is also Professor of Ecosystem Science at the School of Geography and the Environment, Director of Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and a Jackson Senior Research Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford.
His research interests focus on how the living world is responding to global environmental change including climate change, how protecting and working with nature can help mitigate and adapt to climate change and how we can enable nature recovery at scale and reverse the ongoing global decline in biodiversity. Much of his research has focused on tropical forests and savannas, but recent work has also explored the challenge of nature recovery in the UK.
Prof Malhi said:
I am very pleased to serve for a further four years on the Board of the Natural History Museum. My goal is to support this amazing, respected and much-loved institution in its research and public and policy engagement. This can enable it to maximise the contribution it can make, with the unique leverage it has, to tackle what I believe is the most fundamental question of our century: how can we understand and restore our relationship with the natural world so that people and nature thrive within a vibrant biosphere and a stable climate?
These goals are very much aligned with the core mission of the Environmental Change Institute, and I hope to keep drawing on and sharing the vast amount of experience with ECI that can contribute to these goals."
