Jeremy N. McNeil is the President of the Royal Society of Canada. Dr. McNeil earned his BSc. University of Western Ontario, Canada (1969) and his PhD at North Carolina State University, USA (1972). From 1972-2002 he was a professor at Laval University, Quebec and in 2013 was a Humboldt Fellow at Hamburg University. Jeremy is now Distinguished University Professor and the H. Battle Professor of Chemical Ecology at the University of Western Ontario. He has an interdisciplinary and international research program 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.