The Baroness Willis of Summertown | |
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 8 July 2022 Life peerage | |
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| Born | Katherine Jane Willis 16 January 1964 London, England |
| Political party | Crossbench |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3 |
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| Thesis | Late Quaternary vegetational history of Epirus, northwest Greece (1990) |
Katherine Jane Willis, Baroness Willis of Summertown, CBE, FGS[2] (born 16 January 1964)[3] 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 [4] at the University of Oxford,[5] 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.[6] She held the Tasso Leventis Chair of Biodiversity at Oxford and was founding Director, now Associate Director, of the Biodiversity Institute Oxford.[7][8] Willis was Director of Science at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 2013 to 2018.[9] Her nomination by the House of Lords Appointments Commission as a crossbench life peer was announced on 17 May 2022.
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- ^ "Professor Kathy Willis elected new Principal of St Edmund Hall". University of Oxford Department of Zoology.
- ^ "Kathy Willis Profile at Biodiversity Institute". Archived from the original on 5 May 2015.
- ^ Katherine Willis, Baroness Willis of Summertown's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ "Professor Kathy Willis, Director of Science". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Archived from the original on 17 July 2014.