Georgina Mace

Georgina Mace, Professor of Conservation Science at Imperial College London and Director of the NERC Centre for Population Biology since November 2006.

• Director of Science at the Zoological Society of London from 2000-2006, with responsibilities including the scientific research in the Institute of Zoology, overseeing the Society's scientific meetings and publications and the Library
• Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002
• Member of NERC's Science and Innovation Strategy Board, a Vice President of the British Ecological Society, and a past Council member of the RSPB
• Worked extensively with the IUCN in the 1990s to revise the systems used for classifying species at risk of extinction (these rules are now used in IUCN's Red Lists)
• Postdoctoral appointments at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, University College London and at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
• Obtained her DPhil from the University of Sussex, where she specialised in the evolutionary ecology of mammals

Affilations

• Trustee, Natural History Museum
• Board of Governors, Society for Conservation Biology
• Working Group, People and the Planet
• Trustee, WWF UK
• Advisory committee, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment