Pavlos Georgiadis is a biodiversity, ecosystem restoration and community-led climate action 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. During this time, he has produced and curated award-winning science communication content that helped spark dialogues and inspire action on local and global transitions. As a field botanist and 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 member of the Sectoral Scientific Council of Agrotechnology at the National Research, Technology and Innovation Council of Greece. He is Adjunct Lecturer at the American University of Armenia, instructing academic courses on Sustainable Food Systems and Ethnobotany. He holds a BSc/(Hons) in Plant Science from the University of Edinburgh; an MSc in Biodiversity & Taxonomy of Plants from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh; and an MSc in Environmental Protection & Agricultural Food Production from the University of Hohenheim, where he is currently finalising a PhD in Societal Transition & Agriculture. Pavlos is a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar.