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Dr Shaun Russell, Garden Director, Treborth Botanic garden, University of Bangor.
Shaun has held lecturing posts in environmental sciences at Fort Hare University (Nelson Mandela’s alma mater) and Rhodes University in South Africa; was Dean of the Science Faculty at the University of Namibia during that country’s transition to independence, and co-authored the environmental clauses in the National Constitution of Namibia. He worked for the South African Antarctic Biological Programme and the British Antarctic Survey, and during the mid-1990s was full-time Environment Adviser with the British Council. Shaun held posts in the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, the International Centre for Protected Landscapes at Aberystwyth University and the Centre for Arid Zone Studies at Bangor. Shaun was most recently the Director of the Wales Environment Research Hub at Bangor University, a science-into-policy unit of the Welsh Government. His work included leading the team that prepared the Wales Chapter of the UK National Ecosystem Assessment. Shaun also sits on the board of the Darwin Initiative.
