Jeremy McNeil, Distinguished University Professor at Western University, studies the impact of climate change on migratory insects. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (International Secretary 2010-17; President, 2019-22) and was appointed to the Order of Canada (2014) for his research and dedication to public appreciation of science.

Jeremy N. McNeil was born in Tonbridge, England. He received his B. Sc. University of Western Ontario, Canada (1969) and his PhD at North Carolina State University, USA (1972). From 1972-2012 he was a professor at Laval University, Quebec and in 2013 was a Humboldt Fellow at Hamburg University.

He has an interdisciplinary and international research programme in chemical ecology working in a number of different areas: insect migration, insect-host plant interactions and herbivore-natural enemy interaction. Jeremy has published >200 scientific papers and trained > 50 graduate students.

He has received a number of national and international awards for his research, including the Gold Medal from the Entomological Society of Canada, the Fry Medal of the Canadian Society of Zoologist, the Silver Medal of the International Society of Chemical Ecology and the Delwart Prize in Chemical Ecology (Belgium).

For over 30 years he has been engaged, both at home and abroad, in activities relating to the public awareness of science. In 2014 he was appointed to the Order of Canada for his research and for his dedication to increasing public appreciation of science. In 2016 he received the NSERC Award (Individual) for Science Promotion.

Sadly, Jeremy McNeil passed away on 18 July 2024 while still serving as a member of the IAP Advisory Committee.