Dr. Kai Chan is a professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia. He strives to understand how to make our planet both better and wilder. Kai leads CHANS lab, where inspiring students study Connected Human-and-Natural Systems. He is co-founder of CoSphere, a Community of Small-Planet Heroes, which is finding a place for everyone in combating the crisis of climate, ecology, and equity.

Dr. Chan has published over 150 articles and chapters including in Nature, Science, and PNAS. He has also written over 135 newspaper and magazine articles.

Kai is a TEDx speaker; a member of Canada’s Clean16 and Clean50 for 2020; a UBC Killam Research Fellow; a Leopold Leadership Program fellow; senior fellow of the Global Young Academy and of the Environmental Leadership Program; a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists; and Lead Editor of the British Ecological Society journal People and Nature. He was a coordinating lead author for the UN-associated IPBES Global Assessment, and a director on the board of the North American section of the Society for Conservation Biology.

Kai lives and plays outdoors in Vancouver, the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, with his wife and two daughters.
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