Professor Yadvinder Malhi named on ENDS Report Power List 2025

Congratulations to our colleague Yadvinder Malhi, Centre Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, Professor of Ecosystem Science at the Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, and Senior Research Fellow at Oriel College, for appearing on the ENDS Power List for the second year running!

A supporter of Yadvinder’s describes him as “a pioneering ecosystem ecologist”.

In his role at University of Oxford, Malhi looks at how protecting or restoring natural ecosystems can help tackle climate change. His research findings “are significant for conservation and adaptation to climate change,” according to the university.

Malhi is also a trustee of the Natural History Museum of London and a fellow of the Royal Society. He has also been the former president of the British Ecological Society (BES).

A nominator explained that Malhi is leading a BES project this year on how artificial intelligence (AI) can support a more equitable research community, “using AI to review how we have progressed in our global journey”.

A champion of international equity, Malhi is committed to international ecology and building support for all ecologists to ensure inclusive and equitable solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss.

In his field work, Malhi is said by his supporters to ensure that local researchers and students are also “an integral part of the research team, valued in the same way as any other team member”.

Malhi is also the founding director of the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, an institution that aims to understand and support the actions needed to deliver nature recovery that is effective, scalable and socially inclusive.