Wahington, April 6 -- Joshua Tewksbury, the interim executive director and U.S. global hub director of Future Earth, has been named director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), effective July 6.
Tewksbury is an ecologist with more than two decades of research in conservation and biodiversity, as well as nearly a decade of executive leadership experience at international research institutes. At Future Earth, a global research program dedicated to sustainability and global change, Tewksbury leads a network of tens of thousands of scientists and manages a wide range of conservation research projects, staff, programs and partnerships.
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