Ms Nessie REID

Director, The Global Diversity Foundation

Nessie is Director of the Global Environments Network (GEN): a network of over 600 people dedicated to social and ecological justice, healing and planetary wellbeing: with a central pillar being focused on environmental leadership and personal resilience. She has worked in Indonesia, India, Japan and within Europe on local and Indigenous communities’ rights to land for growing food. She is creator of The Milking Parlour: an ongoing artistic discourse and set of performances exploring our human relationship to food and agriculture’s impact on biodiversity and climate change. An Associate Fellow of St Ethelburga’s Centre for Peace and Reconciliation, she is also Managing Editor for Biodiversity – a Journal of Life on Earth.