Hilary Allison

Hilary Allison has been Head of the Ecosystem Assessment Programme at the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) since 2014 where she manages a team of experts engaged in work on biodiversity indicators, ecosystem assessments, engagement with multi-lateral environmental agreements and biodiversity mainstreaming. She is a member of the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership Secretariat,  worked on the latest Global Environmental Outlook published in March 2019 and, with her team, is actively supporting the Convention on Biological Diversity in the preparations for future monitoring of the post 2020 global biodiversity framework.

Prior to joining UNEP-WCMC she worked in UK environmental policy, advocacy and communications. She is a former chair of Wildlife and Countryside Link, a coalition of 40 environmental NGOs in Britain who collaborate on policy and advocacy. For 17 years she was Director of Policy at the Woodland Trust (one of the UK’s leading environmental NGOs), participating in several government-led processes on forest and tree health policy as well as leading advocacy work to enhance UK policy on woodland conservation. She became a Member of the Institute of Chartered Foresters in 2014 and has just been appointed by the UK government as a non-executive Forestry Commissioner.