Eleanor Jane Milner-Gulland

Eleanor Jane Milner-Gulland BA (hons), PhD joined the Durrell Wildlife Board of Trustees following the Trust’s Annual General Meeting on 26th June 2003, and brings with her a wealth of experience in conservation. Eleanor graduated from Oxford University with a first class Bachelors degree, with Honours in Pure and Applied Biology. She then did a PhD at Imperial College London on the effects of hunting exploited species.

She is currently Reader in Conservation Science at the Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Imperial College London. EJ has also lectured in Resource Economics and Mathematical Ecology at Imperial College and the University of Warwick.

EJ is a member of many key groups in her field of work she is a fellow of the Centre for Applied Biodiversity Science / Conservation International Foundation, a member of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), Zoological Society of London. She is a scientific fellow of the Antelope Specialist Group, and of NERC’s Special Committee on seals. She has acted as an advisor to IUCN and CITES on criteria for listing threatened species.

EJ has received numerous awards and grants for her conservation work, including The Marsh Award for outstanding contributions to conservation science from the Zoological Society of London, and four awards from DETR Darwin Initiative, her particular research interests are in the conservation and ecology of hunted species, including wild pigs, saiga antelopes and bushmeat species.