Thomas McKeagThomas McKeag is currently the Senior Advisor at the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry and was its Executive Director from January 2016 to October 2021. He was Program Director for the center from 2015 to 2016. With highly interdisciplinary researc interests focused particularly on topics relating to biomimicry, he has taught on various aspects of bioinspired design since 2006, including running several innovation studio courses, field programs, and seminars at Berkeley, the California College of the Arts, the Indian Institute of Science, and Schumacher College.

Thomas is the cofounder and editor of the award-winning Zygote Quarterly digital magazine, wrote a regular column on Biomimicry for Greenbiz from 2009 to 2016, and was a Fulbright/ Nehru Senior Scholar in 2013-2014. He also has extensive professional design experience in landscape architecture and city planning and has been a guest speaker at events around the globe. Read More Read Less