IUCN CEESP-SSC Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Inter-Commission

Dr Dilys Roe is the biodiversity lead at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) – a UK-based sustainable development think tank – and Chair of the CEESP-SSC Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group (SULi). She has a PhD in Biodiversity Management from the Durrell Institute (DICE), University of Kent. Her work focuses on the human dimensions of conservation – including understanding and supporting the necessary conditions for effective community-based conservation  - and on integrating biodiversity into climate and development policy. She has over 25 years of experience with a geographical focus predominantly – though not exclusively - on East and Southern Africa. Dilys is a member of the UK Government Darwin Expert Committee and Illegal Wildlife Trade Advisory Group and the Scottish First Ministers Environment Council. She is also a Trustee of Resource Africa and a member of the Programme Committee of WWF-UK and Conservation Committee of the Durrell Wildlife and Conservation Trust.