Conservation biologist with over 20 years' experience in high mountain ecosystems of Western China and Central Asia. Special interest in the integration of conservation and sustainable development, with a focus on pastoralist societies. Director of international NGO Plateau Perspectives; Honorary Research Associate in the School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE), University of Oxford; member of the ICCA Consortium; and former Acting Director of the Mountain Societies Research Institute, University of Central Asia.

Also serving occasionally as senior international consultant for UNDP, IUCN, and others.

A portfolio of photo stories are available at https://stories.plateauperspectives.org/