Dr. Thomas Ward Crowther is a professor of ecology, focused on understanding the forces that shape biodiversity at a global scale. He is the founder of the Crowther Lab, a network of research groups distributed across six leading international universities, exploring the role of biodiversity in shaping the climate and human wellbeing. In 2020 he founded Restor.eco, an online platform that supports hundreds of thousands of community-led restoration projects around the world. Thomas Crowther was the founding co-chair of the Advisory Board for the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, which aims to facilitate ecological recovery at a global scale. In 2021, the World Economic Forum named Thomas Crowther a Young Global Leader for his efforts to protect biodiversity across the globe.
Thomas Crowther was born in 1986 and is British.
