Scholar with Indian roots UK museum trustee

London, May 28

British PM Boris Johnson has appointed Indian-origin academic Yadvinder Malhi as a new trustee of the Natural History Museum in London.

The 52-year-old expert will take on the unpaid advisory role for a period of four years.

Malhi is a professor of ecosystem science at the University of Oxford and

Jackson Senior Research Fellow in Biodiversity and Conservation at Oriel College, Oxford. — PTI