Jane Stout

Vice President of Biodiversity and Climate Action, Trinity College Dublin

Professor Jane Stout is the Vice President for Biodiversity and Climate Action in Trinity College Dublin. Jane is an internationally renowned expert on pollinator and pollination ecology, and a prominent voice for biodiversity and its value. Her research seeks to understand how land management practices, including agriculture and urbanisation, affect ecological processes and the benefits of nature for humans. Jane works across disciplines, and with a broad range of stakeholders in public and private organisations, to improve environmental policy and practice. She leads a large team of researchers in the Plant-Animal Interactions Research group in Botany, in the School of Natural Sciences in Trinity. She is co-founder and former Chair of the Board of Natural Capital Ireland, and co-founder and deputy Chair of the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan.