Dave Goulson - Head of Conservation
Dave Goulson ia leading figure in conservation and ecology in the UK. He is considered an influential environmental voice and has contributed to scientific and government enquiries as well as to mainstream debates and discussions in the media.
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He is an outstanding communicator with great humility who conveys the urgency and importance of the mission with great skill and dedication.
Dave Goulson is Professor of Biology at University of Sussex, specializing in bee ecology.
Dave has published more than 400 scientific articles on the ecology and conservation of bumblebees and other insects. He is the author of Bumblebees; Their Behaviour, Ecology and Conservation, published in 2010 by Oxford University Press, and of 6 popular science books published by Jonathan Cape, including the bestsellers, A Sting in the Tale (2013), The Garden Jungle (2019) and Silent Earth (2021) and Insectarium (2024). His books have been translated into 19 languages. Goulson founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust in 2006, a charity which has grown to 12,000 members.
He was Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council’s Social Innovator of the Year in 2010, given Zoological Society of London’s Marsh Award for Conservation Biology in 2013, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2013, given the British Ecological Society Public Engagement Award in 2014 and the Zoological Society of London’s Clarivate Award for Communicating Zoology in 2020.
In 2015 he was named number 8 in BBC Wildlife Magazine’s list of the top 50 most influential people in conservation. In 2018, 2019 and 2020 he was named as a “Highly Cited Researcher” by Thompson ISI.
He is a trustee of Pesticide Action Network, and an “Ambassador” for the UK Wildlife Trusts, and president of Pesticide Free Scotland.