Please see below a list of Imperial delegates for COP17. In addition to the list below, a team of delegates from Target Malaria research group are also attending as part of Imperial's delegation: for more information on their delegation please contact Dr Samantha O'Loughlin. 

Imperial COP17 delegation

  • Audrey Wagner

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    Audrey Wagner PhD researcher at the Centre for Environmental Policy and an associate of the Imperial Grantham Institute, examining the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework across scales in the Amazon.

    Head of delegation

    Areas of interest

    Policy implementation across scales, nature-based solutions, equity and human rights, and academic participation in multilateral processes.

  • Perrine Dalby

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    Perrine Dalby PhD student, EPSRC CDT in Biodesign Engineering

    Areas of interest

    Biosafety, synthetic biology, policy frameworks, biotech governance.

  • Chen Ly

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    Chen Ly Research Postgraduate, Centre for Environmental Policy

    Areas of interest

    How marginalised groups, particularly women and children, participate in and influence global environmental policy.

  • Clare Hunt

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    Clare Hunt Option Convenor for Integrated Water Management, Centre for Environmental Policy

    Areas of interest

    Policy implications of the effects on biodiversity arising from the impacts of water and sanitation technology deployment.

  • Alex Mines

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    Alex Mines PhD Student, Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society

    Areas of interest

    Novel and innovative financing mechanisms for nature, wildfire risk, socioecological resilience and insurance solutions, financing risk reduction and resilience for communities and property. Biodiversity impacts of wildfire risk reduction solutions, notably prescribed burning and mechanical thinning on biodiversity.

  • Jane Murphy

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    Jane Murphy PhD Researcher in Ecosystems Science

    Areas of interest

    How trait-based approaches can be applied to quantify the mechanistic link between biodiversity and ecosystem function, and testing whether trait-based metrics could be utilised as an additional tool in ecosystem monitoring and finance.

  • Benjamin Parker

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    Benjamin Parker Research Postgraduate, Department for Life Sciences and Zoological Society of London

    Areas of interest

    The intersection of biodiversity, climate change, and human activities, international biodiversity and climate policy, multilateral environmental policy and multilateral biodiversity finance. 

  • Rhys Preston-Allen

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    Rhys Preston-Allen Research Postgraduate, Department for Life Sciences

    Areas of interest

    Tropical forest restoration and the global implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Standardising monitoring methods to track global restoration targets and mobilise private nature finance. 

  • Gail Sucharitakul

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    Gail Sucharitakul Research Postgraduate, Centre for Environmental Policy

    Areas of interest

    Social equity in nature finance, and more specifically nature credits (e.g., biodiversity and carbon credits).