Neville Ash

Head of IUCN’s Ecosystem Management Programme

Session

He participated in the "Ignored aspects of biodiversity" session.

Biography

Neville Ash is Head of the IUCN Ecosystem Management Programme, where he provides leadership for IUCN on the programmes of work on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction. He also supports the work of IUCN across a variety of ecosystem-scale biodiversity issues, with a focus on the interactions between global change, ecosystems and people. Neville was previously Head of Ecosystem Assessment at UNEP’s World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), in Cambridge, UK. In this capacity he worked on a range of international assessment and network initiatives, including the Global Environmental Outlook and Global Biodiversity Outlook assessments, focussing particularly on trends in global biodiversity, and the consequences of biodiversity change for ecosystem services, and people.

Neville established the international partnership process to track changes in biodiversity towards the 2010 biodiversity target of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Millennium Development Goals, and had a leading role in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), including through co-editing the MA Status and Trends Assessment Report.  He is currently involved in a range of biodiversity, climate and ecosystem policy initiatives, including consultations over the establishment of the proposed Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.

Neville co-chairs the bioDISCOVERY core project of DIVERSITAS, an international biodiversity science network, and is a member of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Ad-hoc Technical Expert Group on biodiversity and climate change.  He has a degree in Zoology and Genetics from the University of Sheffield, and a MSc in Conservation Biology from the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent.