Prof. Marc HOCKINGS

Emeritus Professor, IUCN WCPA

Marc Hockings is Emeritus Professor in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Queensland and Vice-Chair (Science) with the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas where he leads the global program on Science and Management of Protected Areas. He is also a member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission and the Commission on Ecosystem Management. Marc was the principal author of the IUCN’s best practice guidelines on evaluation of management effectiveness in protected areas. He is the WCPA lead in the development of an IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas in collaboration with staff at IUCN. He is a Fellow at the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge, UK. Marc is Managing Editor of the IUCN journal PARKS. In 2008, he received the Kenton R. Miller Award for Innovation in Protected Area Sustainability for his work on management effectiveness.