Prof. Neil BURGESS

Professor and Senior Fellow respectively, UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Neil has been working in conservation science and practice for more than 20 years, in the UK, Denmark and tropical Africa, especially eastern Africa.  He works at the interface between field conservation, developing country capacity building, and the delivery of science at the global level and together with policy makers.  The focus of Neil’s work in recent years is on developing conservation science that is aimed at international conservation policy targets, such as those agreed under the Convention on Biological Diversity, CITES and the UNFCCC, and the Sustainable Development Goals.  This includes managing a large project on global trade and its impacts on nature and people such as the GCRF Trade Development and the Environment Hub.