Dr Alice HUGHES

Professor, China biodiversity conservation green development foundation

Alice is a Professor and leads the Landscape Ecology group at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She has worked extensively across the Tropics, and has held positions in Thailand, Australia, Costa Rica, and the UK before moving to China. Alice is the author of 87 papers, with around 16 currently in review. She is editor for various journals including Diversity and distributions and Ecography, and has served as chair to various ecological society boards including the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Deputy secretary-general for CBCGDF and is Secretary General to the International Association for Ecology. Alice also works with a number of NGOs, the Biodiversity committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the biodiversity special policy study of CCICED. Alice aims to ensure that biodiversity policy reflects the best of biodiversity science and works to actively communicate conservation standards and tools on all scales