Thomas Brooks

Chief Scientist - International Union for Conservation of Nature

Thomas Brooks is Chief Scientist at the International Union for Conservation of Nature. His responsibilities include scientific support to the delivery of knowledge products (such as the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species), maintaining interactions with peer scientific institutions, and strengthening the Union’s culture of science. He holds a B.A. (Hons) in Geography (Cambridge University) and a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (University of Tennessee). His background is in threatened species conservation (especially of birds) and biodiversity hotspots (he has extensive field experience in Asian, South American and Africa tropical forests). He has authored 288 scientific and popular articles.