David Suzuki is an award-winning scientist, broadcaster, author and environmental advocate whose work has shaped public understanding of science and the environment for more than 50 years. Best known as the longtime host of CBC Television’s The Nature of Things, Suzuki has brought complex scientific issues to life for audiences across Canada and around the world. Through his writing, broadcasting and public speaking, he has become one of the most influential voices on climate change, biodiversity and sustainability.

Suzuki earned his PhD in zoology from the University of Chicago and spent much of his academic career as a professor at the University of British Columbia. Through radio, television and 56 books, he has explored humanity’s relationship with the natural world and the environmental challenges that will shape our collective future.

A Companion of the Order of Canada, Suzuki has received numerous honors, including UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science, the Right Livelihood Award and the United Nations Environment Programme’s Global 500 Award. He has also been awarded 33 honorary degrees from institutions in Canada, the United States and Australia. In 1990, he co-founded the David Suzuki Foundation, a leading environmental organization dedicated to protecting nature and advancing practical solutions to today’s most pressing ecological challenges.

An award-winning writer, Tara Cullis has been a key player in environmental movements in the Amazon, Southeast Asia, Japan and British Columbia. Dr. Cullis earned her PhD in Comparative Literature, her thesis defining the rupture between science and society characteristic of Twentieth Century German, French and English Literature. On graduation she joined the faculty of Harvard University, teaching non-fiction writing. After five years she resigned to co-found, with David Suzuki, the David Suzuki Foundation “to collaborate with Canadians from all walks of life, to conserve our environment, and to find solutions that will create a sustainable Canada through science-based research, education and policy work.” Tara founded or co-founded nine other organizations before The David Suzuki Foundation. She was also a founder of the Turning Point Initiative, now known as the Coastal First Nations Great Bear Initiative, which brought First Nations of British Columbia’s central and northern coasts into an historic alliance, protecting the ecology of the region known as the Great Bear Rainforest.