Joshua Powell


Joshua John Powell CF is a British conservation biologist.

Education

Powell attended the University of Nottingham and graduated with a first-class Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Geography in 2014, before receiving a Thouron Award to complete his Masters at the University of Pennsylvania.

Career

Powell received a UK Churchill Fellowship in 2017 to study island conservation strategy in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji, followed by South Georgia and the Falkland Islands.
Powell then received a grant from the National Geographic Society to establish Rangers Without Borders, a conservation research program he subsequently founded with Peter Coals, a friend from the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at the University of Oxford, with Powell becoming a National Geographic Explorer.
Powell is one of the faces of WWF's #WWFVoices campaign on global biodiversity, for which he has hosted series on polar science and Arctic conservation in Svalbard and Arctic Russia, island and marine conservation in the North Atlantic and biodiversity in South Georgia.

Awards and honours

Powell received a UK Churchill Fellowship in 2017, receiving the honorific CF in 2019.
In 2019, Powell was awarded the Scientific Exploration Society's Explorer Award for Inspiration & Scientific Trail-blazing.