Speakers

Tom is the Nature Leader for ARUP and Director for the UK Business and Biodiversity Forum. He has extensive experience in nature positive, natural capital and biodiversity assessments and is a technical advisory on biodiversity for the British Standards Institute and the International Standard Organisation and sits on the metric working group International Advisory Panel of Biodiversity Credits.  

Tom was central to the development of the Biodiversity Net Gain approach in England and Scotland, developing the metrics, informing the policy, and authoring the industry guidance. Tom has over 27 years’ experience working for wildlife. Over this time, he has led practical management of protected sites, developed local, regional, and national biodiversity strategies and policies, led programs of research, and managed the delivery of the England’s biodiversity strategy. 

Tom is a Fellow for the Royal Society of Biology and the Chartered Institute for Ecology and Environmental Management.