Tom Tew

Tom was appointed to the National Trust’s Board of Trustees in May 2019. He is a nature conservationist, currently Chief Executive and co-owner of two private sector companies (NatureSpace Partnership and Environment Bank) that are working with planning authorities to help deliver biodiversity net gain.

After a zoology degree and a DPhil from Oxford in farmland ecology, Tom spent over 20 years in the public sector with English Nature and Natural England, leading teams and programmes at local, regional, national and international scales, and served on numerous Governmental advisory boards. He was a Regional and National Director at English Nature, with operational responsibility for SSSIs; and was Executive Director and Chief Scientist at Natural England until 2011. He has published numerous scientific papers and books.

Tom has been a Trustee of the Heritage Lottery Fund since 2014. He was the non-Executive chairman of the Vincent Wildlife Trust for 15 years, has served as an independent member for his County Council and is a fellow of both the Royal Society for Arts and the Royal Society of Biology.