Prof. Dan TOMPKINS

Science Strategy Manager, Predator Free 2050 Ltd

Dan is the Science Strategy Manager at Predator Free 2050 Ltd, contributing to New Zealand’s ‘Predator Free 2050’ mission to eradicate mammal pests severely impacting native biodiversity from the country by 2050. Originally from the UK, with Zoology degrees from Cambridge University and the University of Oxford, he holds an honorary professorship at the University of Otago.

In the early years of his career, Dan was a research scientist working in ecological and environmental fields with a focus on wildlife disease ecology. Since emigrating to New Zealand in 2001 his focus has shifted to research management, but he maintains research interests most recently co-editing the 2019 Cambridge University Press book ‘Wildlife Disease Ecology: Linking Theory to Data and Application’.

Dan is a member of the IUCN Invasive Species Specialist Group, and both the IUCN Task Force and the UN CBD Ad-Hoc Technical Expert Group on Synthetic Biology.