About Quentin Wheeler

Quentin Wheeler is the fourth President of ESF, the College of Environmental Science and Forestry, in Syracuse, New York, and is Founding Director of the International Institute for Species Exploration. He was previously Professor of Taxonomy at Cornell University, Director of the Division of Environmental Biology at the National Science Foundation, Keeper and Head of Entomology in the Natural History Museum, London, and Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment, Vice-President, and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. He writes a weekly column on new species for London’s Observer newspaper. His most recent book is What on Earth? (2013).