Deputy Head of Science, United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Rosamunde is an Intellectual Forum Senior Research Associate at Jesus College, University of Cambridge.

She is also a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge and in April 2024, she joined the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge as Deputy Head of Science.

A 'red thread' running through her career as a conservation scientist has been to inspire change with science and she has led, managed and coordinated fascinating and challenging projects with people from all over the world. As Editor-in-Chief of the WWF Living Planet Report in 2020 and 2022, she led the production of WWF’s flagship publication on the state of the world and our impact upon it and she worked closely with the communications team to launch them in 110 countries. Together with researchers from 56 institutions, she was a co-author on a pioneering Nature paper in 2020 which used cutting-edge models and scenarios to identified a range of demand-side, supply-side, and conservation actions which have the potential to ‘bend the curve’ of biodiversity loss.

For the last 6 years, Rosamunde has worked at WWF-Netherlands as one of the founding members of a new Science and Impact Programme, developing new proposals and catalysing strategic research partnerships that bridge policy, research and practice. Her previous roles as Deputy Director of the University of Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the Environment and within the Cambridge Conservation Initiative mean she has an excellent bird’s eye view of conservation and sustainability research within and beyond the University.