Background

I am a marine biologist who started my career tagging toothed whales to study changes in spatial behaviour and social cohesion resulting from human disturbance. As a Senior Scientist at IUCN, my work focuses on developing science-based targets for biodiversity to inform corporate and policy decision-making, data strategy and policy, and deploying global datasets to analyse the interactions between biodiversity and key human interfaces such as violent conflict, agriculture, synthetic biology and palm oil. I hold degrees from MIT, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Princeton University.