Dr Chris J. Kettle

Principal Scientist, Lead Tree Biodiversity for Resilient Landscapes, Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT

Dr Chris Kettle, one of the founders of the Centre for Fruitful Lands India, is an internationally renowned, transdisciplinary scientist. He has 22 years of experience working on landscape restoration and tree-based solutions to sustainable agriculture across Asia, Africa and Latin America. With over 90 peer-reviewed publications, he has been innovating and promoting biodiversity-based solutions, especially the diversity of trees and other non-timber forest products as a critical and underutilised nature-based solution for multiple Sustainable Development Goals.

Chris currently leads a large cross-cutting interdisciplinary research team within the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, focusing on the conservation and sustainable use of socio-economically and ecologically important trees and their genetic diversity for multi-functional landscapes across Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa. In addition, Chris is currently leading the Restore work package within the CGIAR Initiative on Nature-Positive Solutions, and is a Group Leader in the Department of Environmental System Science at ETH Zurich, teaching final year graduate and postgraduate students in rainforest ecology and resilient landscapes.