She is an English primatologist and anthropologist, who founded the Jane Goodall Institute. She is a member of the World Future Council and was named a UN Messenger of Peace in 2002.

She is best known for her decades spanning and groundbreaking studies of chimpanzees and their social interactions at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. During these studies, that started in 1960, she challenged many long-standing assumptions such as “that only humans could construct and use tools, and that chimpanzees were vegetarians”. Goodall is well known for her environmental, humanitarian, and animal rights activism.