Staff And Associates
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The Biodiversity Consultancy works with a range of experts from industry, NGOs, academic institutions and partnerships.
Jonathan Ekstrom BA (Hons.) MA (Cantab) PhD (Sheff.)
Jonathan Ekstrom is the director of the consultancy. He is a qualified ecologist with over 12 years of experience in international biodiversity conservation, including field ornithology, community conservation programmes and IUCN red list research. He has managed several biodiversity projects in East Africa, South and South-east Asia, the Pacific and Madagascar, including formal biological surveys, species and habitat monitoring and several collaborative conservation initiatives between government departments, local communities and NGOs. Applying this experience to business and development issues, his current areas of interest and work include biodiversity offsets, biodiversity indicator and monitoring systems, sector-specific biodiversity impacts, biodiversity risk assessment, and the management of secondary impacts using cross-sector partnerships. He has had a close involvement in the design and implementation of the Rio Tinto biodiversity strategy and previously worked on the Rio Tinto – BirdLife International partnership. CV can be downloaded here jonathan-ekstrom-cv-2009.pdf
Helen Temple BA (Hons), PhD (Cantab.)
Dr Helen Temple is a principal consultant in The Biodiversity Consultancy. She is a conservation scientist with 12 years’ experience of working on a broad range of issues related to biodiversity, conservation science, and conservation practice. Her experience encompasses field research on endangered species and global climate change, technical analyses of broad-scale status and trends in global biodiversity, and the application of this expertise to public and private sector challenges. She has worked for several international NGOs (IUCN, BirdLife International, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust), worked in partnership with government bodies (European Commission, St Lucia Forestry Department) and also with the private sector as a consultant. Her previous role within IUCN’s Red List Unit involved coordinating an international team of IUCN staff, partner NGOs and leading biodiversity scientists and conservation practitioners to assess the status of European biodiversity and produce European Red Lists for c.6,000 species of vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants. Dr Temple holds a doctorate in Ecology from the University of Cambridge and has published a number of peer-reviewed papers.
Dr Rosie Cooney (Bsc (Hons)/LLB (Hons) PhD (Cantab))
Rosie Cooney is a specialist in international and national biodiversity-related policy, including analysis, design, and development through stakeholder consultation processes. She has seven years experience working for major international environment and sustainable development NGOs on biodiversity policy, covering a wide range of issues from international wildlife trade, fisheries, the relationship between biodiversity and livelihoods/poverty, and biodiversity and sustainable development. This work has involved close engagement with a wide variety of national government agencies, international bodies, and private sector interests. One particular area of expertise is the interpretation and application of the precautionary principle in biodiversity/NRM, and she co-edited (with Barney Dickson) the first book addressing this with respect to biodiversity “Biodiversity and the Precautionary Principle: Risk and Uncertainty in Conservation and Sustainable Use” (Earthscan, London). A further focus is approaches to biodiversity conservation based on sustainable use of wildlife by communities or the private sector, and she is an active member of IUCN’s Sustainable Use Specialist Group. She currently teaches international environmental law at the Australian National University as well as carrying out a range of research projects and consultancies for national and Australian government, private sector and non-governmental organisations.
Mamady Kobele Keita BSc (Hons) ENDA TM/IIED
Mamady specialises in protected areas management and climate change. He has worked in both the business and NGO sectors in UK and the Republic of Guinea, West Africa.
His technical achievements include completing the database of Key Biodiversity Areas of Guinea for Conservation International and designing biodiversity mitigation measures within the context of the IFC’s Critical Habitat concept for Guinea Alumina Corporation. Mamady is currently a Chevening Scholar at the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK, where he is developing information systems and policy concerning the protected areas network in West Africa, particularly with respect to likely climate change constraints on protected areas design http://www.unep-wcmc.org/protected_areas/cppawa.htm. In Guinea he also served as a team leader at the primary environmental NGO Guinee Ecologie where he contributed to key publications on water management and climate change. Spatial planning and mapping skills are at the forefront of his repertoire.
Dr Guy Dutson (BVsc (Bsc Hons (Zool.)) Cantab.
Guy Dutson is a biodiversity specialist, conservationist and ornithologist. He has lead on several regional biodiversity priority setting programmes for BirdLife International (Pacific, Australia) and managed several conservation programmes in UK and in the tropics. Guy is a professional ornithologist with a particular interest in Melanesia, a region for which he is currently writing the first field guide. He is also a qualified Veterinarian. Recently, Guy has begun to apply some of his specialist knowledge to business and biodiversity, carbon issues (including REDD – biodiversity opportunities) and consultancy. Guy has most recently completed one of the most comprehensive biodiversity priority setting systems so far undertaken in the Asia-Pacific region, the Important Bird Areas of Australia.
Dr Jo Treweek BA (Oxon) DPhil (Oxon) MIEEM and Chartered Environmentalist
Jo Treweek is an independent ecologist specialising in biodiversity-inclusive impact assessment at both project- and strategic levels. She combines work as an impact assessment practitioner with work in training and capacity building and the provision of advice on biodiversity assessment and management to businesses. She is currently acting as technical director for ecological assessments of mining projects in West Africa and Saudi Arabia. Her experience includes due diligence and compliance reviews with respect to IFC Performance Standard 6 and a range of other criteria for infrastructure projects including roads, mining and airports. She is currently a member of the Technical Steering Committee for the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Program
Sharon Laws BSc, PCCP, PBAS
Sharon Laws is a cross-sector partnership and business and biodiversity specialist having worked in corporate affairs at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and also as a biodiversity specialist with Rio Tinto. She brings particular excellence in project planning and technical analysis. Sharon has worked with UNDP in Pretoria and has specialist knowledge of southern african issues where she worked for several years. She has a parallel career as an Olympic cyclist.
Dr Paul Mitchell BEng, PhD, MCSM
After originally training as a minerals engineer, Paul took a sideways step into environmental management. He has nearly 20 years international experience of working with companies and NGOs as they wrestle with environmental issues related to oil & gas, mining and aggregates (quarrying) production. Recent biodiversity projects include the preparation of Biodiversity Action Plan guidance with the oil & gas sector, work with the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Program and analysis of corporate – third party partnerships. Paul is the director the Green Horizons Environmental Consultants Limited.
Jonathan Rouse BPhys, MA
Jonathan is a household energy specialist with ten years experience managing, planning and monitoring improved stove programmes and interventions to reduce indoor air pollution. He has worked with JP Morgan Climate Care for the past two years developing carbon-financed stoves projects in South Asia and East Africa, using the Gold Standard and SSC CDM methodologies. He now works with the World Bank, UNHCR and a range of other NGO and private-sector bodies as an advisor, trainer and researcher. Jonathan has published widely on the topic - including the World Health Organisation ‘Catalogue of evaulation methods’ which brings together scientific methods for quantifying the impact of stove projects. More details available at www.hedconsulting.com