Thematic Keynote on Theme 3: “How do we support transformation? New frontiers in studying and governing land systems”
Day 3 of the 4th Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme held from April 24-26 in Bern, Switzerland.
Dr. Toby Gardner is a Senior Research Fellow at SEI Stockholm, the Director of the Transparency for Sustainable Economies initiative, www.trase.earth, and co-lead of SEI´s Initiative on Producer to Consumer Sustainability.Toby has over fifteen years’ experience in science and science-policy issues in human-modified landscapes across the tropics, with a strong emphasis on the management and conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services in multiple-use agriculture-forestry landscapes, and the challenges of balancing environmental concerns and rural development priorities. More recently his work has been focused on how to increase transparency in forest-risk commodity supply chains, and how this transparency can be used to leverage new insights and strengthen sustainability outcomes. He is involved in a number of international environmental policy processes including as a Coordinating Lead Author and Liaison Expert for the global assessment on Land Degradation and Restoration of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, launched in Medellin in 2018. Before joining SEI Toby was a research fellow at the University of Cambridge for five years, and helped found and coordinate the Sustainable Amazon Network. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and in 2012 he was awarded the biannual British Ecological Society’s Founders’ Prize for significant contributions to the science of ecology.Toby holds degrees from the University of Edinburgh (BSc, 2001) and the University of East Anglia (MSc, 2001; PhD, 2007).
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