I have been involved in environmental conservation and biological research for over 25 years, holding several senior management positions in international organisations and NGOs. I developed and managed projects and programmes in marine and terrestrial ecosystems, working in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America.
I am a specialist in results-based management, especially strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation. My recent work includes conducting evaluations of several global environmental programmes, including: the EU/Re:wild Rapid Rescue Facility; the UNEP Global Programme of Research on Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation; the BGCI/FFI Global Trees Campaign for Fondation Franklinia; and the global programme on international wildlife trade of TRAFFIC International.
I am not only experienced with well-recognised evaluation frameworks, such as OECD-DAC criteria and UNEP Evaluation Guidelines, but I am also very familiar with the relevant global policy landscape. I represented IUCN and WWF in numerous international policy fora and led or assisted delegations to technical meetings and COPs relating to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the Convention on Wetlands, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. I sat on several consortium-based partnerships (e.g. the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership, the Conservation Measures Partnership, the Key Biodiversity Areas Partnership), as well as several science-policy bodies (e.g. the Interagency Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators, the UNEP GEO-6 High-Level Intergovernmental and Stakeholder Advisory Group). I am currently participating as an expert in the IPBES methodological assessment for monitoring biodiversity, having been nominated for the role by the Swiss federal government.