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Who We Are
Director - Professor Stephen D. Hopper FLS
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Professor Steve Hopper is the 14th Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He holds Visiting Professorships at University of Reading, University of Western Australia and at Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Perth. He was awarded a Commonwealth Centenary Medal for service to the community in 2003. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society and a Corresponding Member of the Botanical Society of America. Steve Hopper is a plant conservation biologist, best known for pioneering research leading to positive conservation outcomes in south-west Australia (one of the few temperate-zone global biodiversity hotspots) and for the collaborative description of 300 new plant taxa (eucalypts, orchids, Haemodoraceae). In 1990 he was Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Georgia and Miller Visiting Research Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, working on granite outcrop plant life, which continues as a research interest. |
Professor Hopper joined Kings Park and Botanic Garden as the Director in 1992, and from 1999 to 2004 served as Chief Executive Officer of the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority (which manages Kings Park and Botanic Garden and Bold Park), leading the delivery of improvements to programs and infrastructure to world-class standards.
Apart from extensive research in southwest Australia, Steve Hopper has explored Australian deserts since 1980, and conducted field research in South Africa and the USA. While Foundation Professor of Plant Conservation Biology at The University of Western Australia from 2004-2006, he developed new theory on the evolution and conservation of biodiversity on the world’s oldest landscapes, and led the establishment of new degrees in conservation biology.
He joined Kew in October 2006.
Find out more about Professor Stephen Hopper's research
Publications by Professor Stephen Hopper
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