Lewis joined The Tutor Trust in March 2014, having spent the previous two-and-a-half years working in South Africa’s Kalahari Desert. 

Lewis was the Field Project Manager at the Kalahari Meerkat Project for 18 months, a behavioural research project run by the University of Cambridge looking at the evolution of cooperative breeding in meerkats.  He was responsible for managing both the day-to-day research of the project and the team of international volunteers who collected the data. Prior to this, Lewis was one of the research volunteers for 12 months.   

Lewis graduated from Nottingham Trent University in 2010, having studied Wildlife Conservation.  

Lewis is also Tutor Trust's Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead.