Malcolm is the GIS manager/specialist at the Natural History Museum, London.  He has led and collaborated on many biodiversity projects in Belize since the early nineties, these include mapping the vegetation of the Greater Maya Mountains, investigating the spatial variation of soil properties at differing scales, leading botanical expeditions to Victoria Peak and sampling tropical tree species variation throughout the Chiquibul forest.  Consequently, he became the NHM Scientific Leader for Las Cuevas Research Station (LCRS) where he helped manage the station manager, and lead research based at LCRS, securing funding and liaising and communicating with the Government of Belize, Forest Department and NGO’s. More recently he has been involved in Darwin projects mapping biodiversity and leading the assessment of key indicator species mapping across Belize and has collaborated with most of the key biodiversity stakeholders in Belize.  Malcolm, has been on the UKBA organising committee since its foundation, and is presently ensuring the georeferencing of NHM Belize specimens is complete and available through the NHM portal.