Tom Tew is the founding Director, co-owner and CEO of NatureSpace. Tom trained as an ecologist, with a DPhil from, and post-doc research career at, Oxford University. Tom spent half a lifetime working for Natural England and its predecessors, with his last statutory role on Natural England’s Executive Board as their Chief Scientist. Tom was CEO and co-owner of Environment Bank for 5 years before setting up NatureSpace in 2017. He coined the phrase ‘better, bigger, more & joined’ when on John Lawton’s Making Space for Nature panel, and was named on the 2023 ENDS ‘Environmental Power list 100’.

Tom has always volunteered freely for nature and has held non-Executive roles as Chair of the Vincent Wildlife Trust for a decade, Board member of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and, on the Board of the National Trust.  Any remaining spare time is exhausted by being taken for walks by his spaniel.