Presenter Bio:
Kai Chan is a sustainability scientist whose work straddles social and natural systems with a
focus on values, rewilding, and transformative change. He is a Professor and Canada Research
Chair (Rewilding and Social-Ecological Transformation) at the University of British Columbia. Kai
is also a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and
Scientists (2017), a Coordinating Lead Author of the IPBES Global Assessment, a Lead Editor
for the new journal People and Nature, a member of Canada’s Clean16 for 2020, and co-
founder of CoSphere (a Community of Small-Planet Heroes).