Plenary speaker
Stuart Pimm , Duke University, USA
Dr Stuart Pimm, Professor of Conservation at Duke University, is a global leader in studying biodiversity, especially present-day extinctions and what the world can do to prevent them. Pimm directs Saving Nature a non-profit that uses donations for carbon emissions offsets to fund conservation groups in areas of exceptional tropical biodiversity to restore their degraded lands.
Pimm is the author of nearly 400 scientific papers and five books, including the acclaimed assessment of the human impact on the planet: The World According to Pimm: a Scientist Audits the Earth. His awards include the International Cosmos Prize (2019), the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2010) and the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006).
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