Mike Morecroft is Deputy Director of Climate Change Science at the government conservation agency, Natural England.

He leads the Nature Returns programme on nature-based solutions, which brings together science, land management, green finance and community engagement to test what works for Nature-based Solutions and support policy and practise.

Mike was Coordinating Lead Author on ecosystems for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) most recent assessment report and is a Visiting Professor at Reading University.
He started his career with a PhD at Cambridge and led a research group at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology before joining Natural England.