EJ MILNER-GULLAND

Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity

Before joining the University of Oxford in November 2015, EJ was Professor of Conservation Science at Imperial College London for 15 years, and has held previous positions in Resource Economics and Mathematical Ecology at Oxford, Imperial and Warwick Universities.

She has a particular interest in developing and applying methods for understanding and predicting human behaviour in the context of local resource use in developing countries, and improving the effectiveness of incentive-based mechanisms such as payment for ecosystems services and biodiversity offsetting, in the marine and terrestrial realms.

EJ also works on the illegal wildlife trade and is interested in designing, monitoring and evaluating conservation interventions in order to improve their effectiveness. She is passionate about the conservation ecology of the saiga antelope in Central Asia, and co-founded the Saiga Conservation Alliance in 2006.

EJ is also director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation which ensures all research addreses issues identified by practitioners, and is carried out collaboratively with end-users.

The group’s research falls within three broad themes:

• Understanding natural resource users;
• Exploring social-ecological systems;
• Managing human-nature interactions.

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