Gavin Pretor-Pinney

Gavin Pretor-Pinney is founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society, which has members in 120 countries, all of whom are united in the belief that clouds are the most dynamic, evocative and poetic aspect of nature. Gavin is the author of the internationally bestselling Cloudspotter’s Guide and Cloud Collector’s Handbook. Gavin is a TED Global speaker with 1.4 million views. He won the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books and the Royal Meteorological Society’s Michael Hunt award, has presented television documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4 and is a Visiting Fellow at the Meteorology Department of Reading University. Gavin co-founded the Idler, a magazine that argues for the importance of downtime in creative thinking.