Kim Wilkie had an intense introduction to landscape. He grew up in the Malaysian jungle and the Iraqi desert before being sent to school in southern England. Having studied history at Oxford and environmental design at the University of California, Berkeley, he set up his landscape studio in London in 1989. He is fascinated by the link between land and culture and between memory and imagination. He continues to teach sporadically at Berkeley, writes optimistically about land and place and is involved in various national committees on landscape and environmental policy in the UK.

Dieter Helm?is Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of New College Oxford, Chairman of the Natural Capital Committee and author of many books including?Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside (William Collins, 2019),?Burn Out: The Endgame for Fossil Fuels?(Yale University Press, 2018) and?Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet?(Yale University Press, 2015).