Ruth Padel (private)
Ruth Padel is an award-winning British poet and conservationist, author of twelve acclaimed poetry collections including We Are All from Somewhere Else, a prose-and-poetry work arguing that migration is a natural part, from cells upwards, of how the world works, and Darwin: A Life in Poems, on her great great grandfather Charles Darwin. Novels include Where the Serpent Lives on Indian wildlife; her non-fiction includes  an indepth study of tiger conservation across Asia. She is Professor of Poetry at King’s College, London, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Zoological Society of London, and Trustee of New Networks for Nature, a UK alliance of scientists, artists and conservationists