Dr Alexandra ZIMMERMANN

Chair, IUCN SSC Human-Wildlife Conflict Task Force, IUCN SSC

Alexandra Zimmermann specializes in conservation conflict and human-wildlife conflict, with 20 years' experience leading biodiversity conflict resolution initiatives around the globe. Having worked with practitioners, researchers, policymakers and communites in a diversity of situations, she brings global perspectives and practicioner insights to this conservation challenge. She is founding Chair of the IUCN SSC Human-Wildlife Conflict Task Force, Senior Advisor to The World Bank’s Global Wildlife Program, and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, and was previously Head of Conservation Science at Chester Zoo. She is an interdisciplinary scientist, originally trained in zoology, then in social sciences for her doctorate at Oxford, followed by nonprofit strategy at Harvard Business School, dispute & conflict negotiation at Harvard Law School and multilateral negotiation at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research.