Affiliate Professor Phoebe Barnard

University of Washington

Phoebe Barnard is Chief Science and Policy Officer with the Conservation Biology Institute, and Affiliate Professor of conservation biology and environmental futures at the University of Washington. She has contributed to the work of the IUCN Connectivity Conservation Specialist Group via support to the Center for Large Landscape Conservation in 2018. Most of her career was spent in Namibia and South Africa, working in government and academia on conservation biology and global-change biology, as well as sustainability strategy and environmental policy. She established and ran national biodiversity and climate-change programs for the government of Namibia, and represented African governments on the global board of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and at the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity. Phoebe is also a research associate of the University of Cape Town’s African Climate and Development Initiative and its FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology. She is a former Fulbright Scholar and received a Distinguished Service Award in 2002 from the Society for Conservation Biology. She received her B.Sc. in Canada (Acadia University) and M.Sc. and doctoral degrees from leading South African (Witwatersrand) and Swedish (Uppsala) universities.