I am helping shape a new conservation ambition and ethos often referred to as rewilding or nature recovery.

I believe that conservation needs vision – imaginings of futures that we can collectively aspire to create. Together with others,  I work up new visions, frameworks and tools that blend emerging trends in science, technology, finance and society with a sense of confidence, innovation and hope.

My work is informed by a blend of scholarship and practice spanning a range of disciplines and situations.  Throughout my career I have been fortunate to work at the cutting edge of practice, policy and theory.  In the 1980s this was urban nature restoration in Manchester and Shrewsbury, in the 1990s biodiversity conservation in Indonesia, in the 2000s it the interface of academic theory, protected area policy and supply chain governance in Asia and Brazil, now I work at the interface of fintech, ESG and nature recovery.

Between 2006-2018 I developed and directed interdisciplinary and futured-orientated MSc courses at Oxford University. During this time I expanded my research horizons to Europe and Brazil and the implications of new technologies for conservation futures.  In 2019, I returned to practice and now work for an enterprise designing new frameworks and mechanisms to make nature recovery investable. 

My career has been gudied by my passion for birding and travel and engageing with the knowledge and perspectives of people from differtent cultures and backgrounds.  I am fascinated by the history of conservation action and how different values, worldviews, and ways of engaging with nature have shaped perspectives on what is natural  and how we should go about  protecting, conserving and restoring the nature world.