Amy Dickman is a Professor of Wildlife Conservation at Oxford University, where she is the Director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit. She is also the Joint CEO of Lion Landscapes and the Chair of the Board of the Arabian Leopard Fund. She is an award-winning conservationist and has worked on community-based conservation for over 25 years, with a particular focus on African carnivores. She is a member of the IUCN Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group. She has published over 100 papers and book chapters on carnivore conservationn and is a National Geographic Explorer.

Amy Dickman’s salary is paid by Oxford University and is funded by the Panthera, with consultancy funding from the Darwin Expert Committee, Jamma International and the Arabian Leopard Fund. Her field project, Lion Landscapes, has a diverse range of funders, and nine of those take an explicit pro- or anti-hunting stance. Her previous project received historic funding from donors with both pro- and anti-hunting stances, with funding from anti-hunting donors larger and more recent than from pro-hunting donors.