Pavlos Georgiadis is a biodiversity, ecosystem restoration and sustainable food systems specialist. In the last 15 years, he has worked with indigenous and rural communities in over 20 countries in Europe, Asia and America at the nexus between traditional ecological knowledge, rural innovation and policy change. As a prolific plant collector in temperate and tropical mountain forests of the Indian Himalaya, Northern Thailand and Southwest China, he has registered over 1,100 voucher plant specimens in the world’s most prominent natural history collections. He is a Research Associate at the Department for Societal Transition & Agriculture at the University of Hohenheim, Germany and Adjunct Lecturer at the American University of Armenia.