Tom McKeag is the former Executive Director and current Senior Advisor of the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry, and has over 40 years of professional experience in education, project management, planning and design. He is a recognized expert in the field of biologically-inspired design, is the co-editor of Zygote Quarterly magazine and former columnist for the Biomimicry column at Greenbiz.com. He holds masters degrees in community planning (University of Rhode Island) and landscape architecture (University of California at Berkeley). In 2013-2014 he was a Fulbright Nehru senior scholar at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India.