Kathy Willis, Baroness Willis of Summertown
✓ Source-basedstableBritish ecologist (born 1964)
Katherine Jane Willis, Baroness Willis of Summertown, is a British biologist, academic and life peer, who studies the relationship between long-term ecosystem dynamics and environmental change.
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Leif Ove AndsnesAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Bergen
Danielle GeorgeAlso won Michael Faraday PrizeJames H. BrownAlso won Marsh Ecology Award
Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of NorthamptonAlso won Fellow of the Geological Society of London
Frederick Wollaston HuttonAlso won Fellow of the Geological Society of London
Sandra LavorelAlso won Marsh Ecology AwardAbout this person
Katherine Jane Willis, Baroness Willis of Summertown, is a British biologist, academic and life peer, who studies the relationship between long-term ecosystem dynamics and environmental change. She is Professor of Biodiversity in the Department of Biology and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Oxford, and an adjunct professor in biology at the University of Bergen. In 2018 she was elected Principal of St Edmund Hall, and took up the position from 1 October. She held the Tasso Leventis Chair of Biodiversity at Oxford and was founding Director, now Associate Director, of the Biodiversity Institute Oxford. Willis was Director of Science at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 2013 to 2018. Her nomination by the House of Lords Appointments Commission as a crossbench life peer was announced on 17 May 2022. Willis was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2026.
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