Dr Dilys Roe leads IIED’s work on biodiversity and conservation. Her work focuses on: Human dimensions of conservation – including understanding and supporting the necessary conditions for effective community-based conservation, enhancing community voices in conservation policymaking and strategies for linking biodiversity conservation with poverty reduction and social justice; and Biodiversity mainstreaming – ensuring biodiversity values are reflected in development and climate change policy and decision making. Dilys is chair of the IUCN Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group and Chair of the Collaborative Partnership on Sustainable Wildlife Management. She is also a member of the UK government Darwin Expert Committee (DEC) and Illegal Wildlife Trade Advisory Group; and the Scottish First Minister’s Environment Council.Liz has 40+ years’ experience in 20+ countries in Africa and Asia. She works independently, with governments and non-state actors. She lives in Kenya, where she is a Fellow of Katiba Institute, and informally advised communities on land matters in several countries in East, Southern and West Africa. Liz is also a Fellow of the global Rights and Resources coalition and a Visiting Fellow at the Van Vollenhoven Institute at the Leiden Law School in the Netherlands. She is a co-founder of LandMark, an interactive site which is progressively collating and presenting maps and data on community lands from all around the world.