Prof. Robert Kenward

Professor Robert Kenward grew up on a farm in southern England and worked forty years in wildlife research, including 3 degrees from Oxford university. He taught courses and ran projects in many countries, mainly on raptors, game birds and squirrels, working in 5 European languages. After founding one company for producing radio-tracking equipment and one for software, he served Centre for Ecology and Hydrology for two years as Director of Technology Transfer and now enjoys being a Fellow of UKCEH. He has recently served on scoping for IPBES and supervised four contracts for United Nations and European Commission, including FP7-TESS and currently Horizon-PRO-COAST.

Civic responsibilities have included 20-31 years on councils of 3 international NGOs for conservation through sustainable use, during 2007-19 as chair of IUCN’s European Sustainable Use Specialist Group (now European Sustainable Use Group), also a vice-chair for Sustainable Use and Livelihoods and founder of the global thematic group on Sustainable Use and Management of Ecosystems in IUCN’s Commission on Ecosystem Management; he still runs the spin-out software company (Anatrack Ltd) and a farm-research company. His scientific publications include books on radio-tagging, the northern goshawk and the common buzzard. A passion for helping people to improve rural areas has resulted in development of multilingual web-networking for nature conservation, including www.naturalliance.org. www.perdixnet.org & www.sakernet.org.