DAME EJ MILNER-GULLAND

Department of Biology

EJ is Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity at the University of Oxford. Her research group (the Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science) works on a wide range of projects understanding, predicting and influencing human behaviour, and designing, monitoring and evaluating conservation interventions in order to improve their effectiveness. She runs large programmes on quantifying and mitigating the biodiversity impacts of food systems, industrial activities and the wildlife trade. She aims to ensure that all the research in her group is addressing issues identified by practitioners, is carried out collaboratively with end-users, and builds the capacity of young conservationists, particularly in developing countries. She has launched a number of initiatives which aim to change the real-world conversation around conservation, including the Mitigation and Conservation Hierarchy approach to meeting a global vision of restoring nature and the Conservation Optimism movement. She is the Chair of the UK Government's Darwin Expert Committee and a Trustee of WWF-UK.