Jaboury Ghazoul

Jaboury Ghazoul has been Full Professor for Ecosystem Management at the Department of Environmental Sciences at ETH Zurich since October 2005.

Jaboury was born in 1967 in Iraq and moved to the UK in 1980. He received his PhD from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, in evolutionary ecology of wasps. Thereafter he spent a year in Vietnam leading biodiversity survey work with the Vietnamese Ministry of Forestry, returning to London to work as a postdoc at the Natural History Museum from where he ran a CIFOR project addressing impacts of logging on forest tree reproduction in Thailand. He was appointed Lecturer in Ecology at Imperial College London in 1998 and to Senior Lecturer in 2003. At Imperial he developed both basic and applied research in ecology and environment at locations throughout the tropics as well as the UK.

His research at ETH Zurich is on plant reproductive processes both in natural and human dominated environments. Elements of this research extend to plant genetics, conservation and human livelihoods. He was Editor-in-Chief of he journal Biotropica between 2006 and 2013. He is currently also a member of the Expert Committee on Forest Science for the UK Forest Commission, and holds the Prince Bernhard Chair of Internationlal Nature Conservation at Utrecht University. His wider interests include geology, marine biology, political history, the Scottish Highlands and, above all, his family.