Timothy founded and led the climate change and health program at the World Bank, mobilizing more than $1bn in investment toward climate-sensitive health systems. He was also an originating member of the Global Partnership for Oceans and World Bank team addressing shared threats to human, animal, and environmental health. Trained as a medical doctor and environmental scientist, he has previously held positions with the US National Academy of Sciences, the World Health Organization, and the University of California, San Francisco. He sits on a number of advisory bodies across the United States and Europe addressing climate change, health, or oceans in academia, civil society, finance, and tech. He holds degrees in biology, bioethics, geography, and medicine from Tufts, Harvard, Oxford, and Duke. Currently, he is based in Paris where he is working alongside Tara (Ocean) Expeditions and Genopole (French biotechnology cluster) to develop new ocean-derived biotechnologies.