Professor Joshua Fisher is the inaugural Director of the Nature Positive Hub at He Manga Tauhokohoko | University of Auckland Business School. He leads strategic research, education, partnership building, and impact-aligned scholarship to identify pathways for regenerating environmental integrity and social cohesion toward a nature-positive world. Prior to joining the University of Auckland, he spent nearly 15 years at Columbia University leading the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4), one of the core research centers comprising the Earth Institute. He maintains active partnerships across a wide network of institutions advancing nature-positive science and scholarship, and holds academic affiliations with Columbia University's Climate School, Hiroshima University's Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability and University Presidents for Peace initiative, and the Agirre Lehendakaria Center for Social and Political Studies at the University of the Basque Country.