Prof Juliet Vickery

Following a PhD at Oxford, a Post doc at the University of East Anglia and research posts at Scottish Natural Heritage, University of Edinburgh, I led a research team at the British Trust for Ornithology focusing on the ecology and conservation of farmland birds and then at the RSPB focussing on the conservation of globally threatened sites and species, particularly on the UK’s Overseas Territories and Sub Saharan West Africa.

In 2020 I moved to my current positions as CEO of the British Trust for Ornithology. In 2015, I became an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Zoology at Cambridge and in 2020 I became an Honorary Professor at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of East Anglia. 

I am a member of the Independent Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Zoology, and the Advisory Board of the Nature Based Solutions Initiative, University of Oxford. I was President of the British Ornithologists’ Union for three years, served on the Darwin Initiative Expert Committee for six years and chaired the Policy Committee of the British Ecological Society for nine years. I am on the board of the Cambridge Conservation initiative and the advisory board for the Cambridge Student Conference in Conservation Science.