- Full Professor, Department of Biology, University of Ottawa
Professor Jeremy Kerr, FRSC, FRSB is Professor of Biology at University of Ottawa. His primary research seeks to discover how, why, and when environmental changes harm (or, less frequently, benefit) biodiversity. This work has a global profile. He was trained in Canada and Oxford, where he also served as an elected Senior Research Fellow at Mansfield College and the Environmental Change Institute.
Professor Kerr engages strongly on public science and policy, including the vital need for inclusion. He is also an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Sigma Xi. He is an executive member of Canada's national science granting council (NSERC), and recently chaired the OECD/Global Science Forum working group on citizen science, among many other leadership roles. He has appeared several times before Parliament to advise Members and Government on science policy and on critical advances in conservation science, global change biology, and citizen science. Kerr has also written many editorials on current science issues in leading newspapers and scientific venues. He is a fierce and unapologetic advocate for inclusion.
