Dr Kathy MACKINNON

Chair, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, IUCN WCPA

Dr Kathy MacKinnon is the Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) and also cochairs the Specialist Group on Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures(OECMs). She has spent a lifetime working on conservation and protected area issues globally, including time as the Lead Biodiversity Specialist at the World Bank. She is an IUCN Councillor with a particular interest in how conserving nature can contribute to supporting human health and wellbeing as well as helping to address climate change, biodiversity loss and other environmental crises.  In 2018 Dr MacKinnon was awarded the prestigious Midori Prize for Biodiversity for outstanding contributions to biodiversity conservation and sustainable use at local and global levels.