Director of the Oxford Martin School and the Oxford Programme on the Future of Food
Charles is a population biologist with broad interests in the environmental sciences and has published in fundamental and applied areas of ecology, evolution and epidemiology. His research interests include the global food system, population and community ecology, and evolutionary biology. He is interested in how the global food system will need to change and adapt to the challenges facing humanity in the 21stcentury, and in particular in the concept of sustainable intensification, and the relationship between food production, ecosystem services and biodiversity.