Yadvinder Malhi is Professor of Ecosystem Science at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the metabolism and functioning of ecosystems and of the biosphere, and how this is changing in the Anthropocene. He has worked across a range of ecosystems, from tropical forests and savannas to ocean islands, British farms and polar tundra.

He is Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, which takes a multidisciplinary approach spanning the sciences and humanities to research what is needed to build a flourishing relationship between humanity and the rest of the natural world.

He is a Trustee of the Natural History Museum of London and Fellow of the Royal Society, and has been President of the British Ecological Society and the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation.