Career cards

Give your pupils an insight into different careers at Kew with our career cards.

A member of the horticulture team watering plants in the Temperate House © RBG Kew/Jeff Eden

Find out more about the people who work at Kew. 

Our scientists and horticulturalists share their advice, what they've learned, and what a day in their life is like. The perfect resource to use in the classroom or at career fairs. 

Aisyah Faruk

Country Programme Officer 

Read about Aisyah

Alex Antonelli

Director of Science 

Read about Alex

Alice di Sacco

Seed Conservation Projects Officer 

Read about Alice

Alice Livingstone

Botanical Horticulturalist

Read about Alice

Aurélie Grall

Senior Curator Botanist 

Read about Aurélie

Chris Jenkins

Propagation Supervisor

Read about Chris

Dani Ballesteros

Early Career Research Fellow 

Read about Dani

Eli Biondi

Princess of Wales Conservatory Supervisor 

Read about Eli

Harriet Gendall

Project Officer, Mobile Museum project

Read about Harriet

Ian Willey

UK National Tree Seed Officer 

Read about Ian

James Morley

Project Officer (digital), Mobile Museum project 

Read about James

Jenny Peach

UK Flora Collections Assistant 

Read about Jenny

Kim Walker

PhD student, studying the history of drug development from plants in the 19th century

Read about Kim

Lee Davies

Fungarium Collections Curator 

Read about Lee

Lucy Taylor

Seed Collections Assistant 

Read about Lucy

Naomi Carvey

MSPB Data Warehouse Project Officer 

Read about Naomi

Nina Davies

Senior Curator-Botanist

Read about Nina

Orla Elliston

Botanical Horticulturalist 

Read about Orla

Owen Blake

UK Seed Collecting Project Officer

Read about Owen

Pin Dix

Botanical Horticulturalist for the Water Gardens

Read about Pin

Richard Buggs

Senior Research Leader (Plant Health) 

Read about Richard

Richard Deverell

Director of RBG, Kew 

Read about Richard

Sarah Gattiker

Seed Curation Manager 

Read about Sarah

Sonia Dhanda

Scientific Officer - CITES 

Read about Sonia

Tom Heller

Islands Conservation Partnerships Coordinator 

Read about Tom

Vicky Philpott

Seed Collections Assistant

Read about Vicky

William Milliken

Research Leader in Diversity and Livelihoods

Read about William
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