Lynn Dicks is a Professor of Ecology in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK. She leads the Agroecology Group, researching how to protect and manage biodiversity in agricultural landscapes, alongside sustainable, high-yielding food production. This includes current projects on landscape-scale restoration, global insect decline and biodiversity impacts of current transitions in farming systems, such as ecological intensification in South America, ‘Zero Budget Natural Farming’ in India and regenerative agriculture in the UK. She is a Board Member of the UK Government nature conservation agency, Natural England, and co-Chairs the Natural England Science Advisory Committee. She was a Co-ordinating Lead Author of the IPBES Thematic assessment of pollinators, pollination and food production from 2014-2016, and has worked on the Conservation Evidence project at the University of Cambridge since 2009.

At ICOPE 2025, Lynn will discuss the role of biodiversity-friendly farming in global efforts to reverse biodiversity decline. She will present new evidence from temperate and tropical systems that shows how farmer-led agro-ecological innovation can transition agriculture towards more sustainable systems that are not only highly productive, but also more resilient and more profitable, with lower impacts on biodiversity.