Stephan Harding is author of Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia and resident ecologist and head of the Holistic Science program at Schumacher College in Devon, England. In 1990 Harding helped found Schumacher College whose first teacher was James Lovelock, with whom Stephan has maintained a long-lasting friendship and scientific collaboration that culminated in their joint appointment as chair holders of the Arne Naess Chair in Global Justice and the Environment at the University of Oslo. Stephan holds a doctorate in ecology from Oxford University.