Board of Directors

Mark Blaxter is Head of the Tree of Life Programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK. He leads a programme that aims to generate and analyse reference genome sequences

Theresa Ebden is the Vice President of the Ontario Securities Commission’s Investor Office, within the Strategic Regulation branch.

Mazyar Fallah is a professor and Dean for the College of Biological Science at the University of Guelph. He joined the College of Biological Science as Dean in 2021, and as a professor in the Department of Human Health & Nutritional Sciences.

Sir Charles Godfray is Director of the Oxford Martin School and Professor of Population Biology at Oxford University. He has broad interests in science and the interplay of science and policy and has spent his career at Oxford University and Imperial College.

Rebecca Johnson is the Associate Director for Science and Chief Scientist at the National Museum of Natural History. She is responsible for the overall leadership and administration of the museum’s research and collections activities.

Anne is with the International Conservation Fund of Canada (ICFC), which has projects in over thirty countries in Latin American, Asia and Africa.  A Guelph biology grad, Anne worked as a biologist and ran a small business before co-founding ICFC in 2007.

Junko Shimura spent 14 years in the United Nations Secretariat for the Convention of Biological Diversity, as its Programme Management Officer.

Edwin van Huis studied biology in Utrecht and Gainesville Florida, and business management in Rotterdam. He worked most of his professional career in the arts.