Dave Goulson, born in Shropshire, England in 1965, is a Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex. Specializing in insect ecology and conservation, particularly bumblebees, Goulson is the author of several books, including *Bumblebees: Their Behaviour and Ecology* (2003) and *Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypses* (2021), as well as over two hundred academic articles. In 2006, he founded the Bumblebee Conservation Fund, a charity dedicated to reversing the decline in bumblebee populations. Goulson studied Biology at Brasenose College, Oxford, and earned a PhD in Butterfly Ecology from Oxford Brookes University under the supervision of Denis Owen. When he was born in 1965, the British shorthaired bumblebee was quite widespread, but he never saw one before they became extinct in the UK. In his book A Stinging Tale (2013), he describes the causal relationship between World War II and the decline of the bee as a result of intensive agriculture, pesticide use, and the consequent habitat loss driven by the need to increase food production during wartime. In 2010, he was awarded the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Social Innovator of the Year Award. In 2015, he was included in BBC Wildlife magazine's list of the top 50 "Conservation Heroes." He is a member of the board of trustees of the Pesticide Action Network and The Wildlife Trusts.