Prof Sallie Bailey - Chief Scientist, Natural England

Title of Talk: TBC

Date & Time: Wed 25th March, 09:30 - 10:00

Venue: Frederick Douglass Building

Sallie is Chief Scientist at Natural England, the UK Government’s adviser for the natural environment in England. She leads the Chief Scientist’s Directorate to ensure science, evidence and expertise are at the heart of decision-making, partnerships and community action to achieve nature recovery.

Previously, she was Deputy Chief Science Advisor for Scottish Government in the areas of environment, natural resources and agriculture, bringing scientific evidence to the centre of decision-making and policy. She developed the First Minster’s Environmental Council to advise Scottish Government on international best practice and response to the climate emergency and ecological decline. She has experience working internationally, with the EU, pan UK and in Scotland across science, evidence-based policy, regulation and delivery within the spheres of natural resource management, biodiversity and the environment.

Sallie has held leadership roles in the UK state forestry sector, is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Foresters and the British Ecological Society, also holding an Honorary Professorship at the University of Stirling. Following her MSc in GIS and remote-sensing and PhD in woodland ecology and biodiversity loss at the University of Nottingham she completed a post-doctorate at the Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford University considering biodiversity and natural capital.