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Alex holds 7 years of experience conducting and managing policy-oriented research in ecology, conservation, and Nature-based Solutions. For the past 5 years, he has been based at the Nature-based Solutions Initiative, a dynamic research and policy thinktank at Oxford University. There he manages knowledge-exchange projects and conducts applied evidence-synthesis, with a focus on the role of Nature-based Solutions in economic recoveries and climate change adaptation.

He is also compiling guidance for funders and research teams to operate transdisciplinary, ‘North-South’ research partnerships addressing socio-environmental challenges. He is interested in supporting innovative interdisciplinary research and the development of transdisciplinary collaborations as pathways to impact at the nexus of development, climate change, and biodiversity issues.