Thomas Lovejoy
Thomas E. Lovejoy is chief biodiversity adviser to the president of the World Bank, senior adviser to the president of the United Nations Foundation, and president of the Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment. He coined the term biological diversity in 1980.Lovejoy, a tropical biologist and conservation biologist, has worked in the Amazon of Brazil since 1965. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in biology from Yale University.
From 1973 to 1987 he directed the World Wildlife Fund-U.S., and from 1987 to 1998 he served as Assistant Secretary for Environmental and External Affairs for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and in 1994 became Counselor to the Secretary for Biodiversity and Environmental Affairs. He is chair of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, and is past president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, past chairman of the United States Man and Biosphere Program, and past president of the Society for Conservation Biology.
Lovejoy serves on many scientific and conservation boards and advisory groups, is the author of numerous articles and books, and is the founder of the public television series Nature.
Lovejoy predicted in 1980 (see quote below), that 10-20 percent of all species on earth would have died by the year 2020, a prediction disputed by statistician and author Bjørn Lomborg.
See: Misleading Math about the Earth
