Currently Director of the School for Climate Studies, interim Director of the Centre for Invasion Biology, and Distinguished Professor at Stellenbosch University, Professor Guy Midgley has worked on climate change risks to biodiversity since the 1980s.
Previously A-rated in Plant Sciences, he has achieved a further NRF A-rating in Earth Sciences. A recipient of the South African NFTS and Ecologic Awards, Royal Society of South Africa’s Marloth Medal, and German Humboldt Research Award for lifetime scientific contributions, he is ranked by Thomson-Reuters as highly cited and in the top 200 most influential climate change scientists globally (2022).
Prof Guy has contributed to multiple international environmental assessments under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem. He chaired SA’s Global Change Science Committee in the 1990s and 2000s and has graduated many students who now hold senior government, consulting, and academic positions.