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EDITORS
Professor Richard J. Delahay
Professor Richard Delahay is a wildlife biologist with expertise
in the epidemiology and management of disease in wildlife
populations. Following completion of a PhD at Aberdeen
University on the epidemiology of threadworm infections
in red grouse, he has worked as a post-doctoral researcher
for the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Oxford University and
the Forestry Authority before holding scientific posts in a
succession of Government research agencies, and currently
holds an Honorary Visiting Chair at Exeter University. He
is an author on over 120 peer-reviewed scientific papers
and the principal editor of a book on managing disease in
wild mammals.
Professor Chris J. Spray
Professor Chris J Spray MBE, FRSA, MA (Cantab), PhD, MCIEEM
holds the Chair of Water Science & Policy at the UNESCO Centre
for Water Law, Policy & Science at the University of Dundee.
Before joining the university in 2009, he had over 25 years of
practical experience of integratedwater resourcemanagement
from a number of distinct perspectives. These included
working in regulation and policy as Director of Environmental
Science for the Scottish Environment Protection Agency;
in water supply and services as Director of Environment for
Northumbrian Water Group; in river basin management
planning as chair of Tweed River Area Advisory Group; and
with a wide range of environmental NGOs (past trustee of
Tweed Forum, FBA, RSPB, WWT, BTO). His current research
focuses on wetland ecosystem services (co-author of UKNEA
chapter on water and wetlands); on the use of the Ecosystem
Approach for delivery of the Scottish Land Use Strategy;
and on water science and catchment restoration. His PhD at
Aberdeen was on territorial behaviour of carrion crows, after
which he studied the population dynamics of mute swans,
including publishing papers on lead poisoning. His interest
in the linkages between science and policy are currently also
being pursued as a part-time Senior Research Fellow for NERC
working with the Welsh Government.
CHAIRS AND CONVENORS
Lord John Krebs
The Lord Krebs Kt, MA, DPhil, FRS, FMedSci, Hon DSc completed
his undergraduate degree in Zoology (1966) and DPhil (1970)
at Pembroke College, the University of Oxford. After a year as a
Departmental Demonstrator in Ornithology at Oxford hemoved
to the University of British Columbia as an Assistant Professor of
Ecology (1970-73). John then spent a period at the University
College of North Wales in Bangor as lecturer in Zoology (1973-
75) before returning to Oxford as University Lecturer in Zoology
in the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology. John was
a Fellow of Wolfson College until 1981, when he became EP
Abraham Fellow of Pembroke College. Between 1988 and 2005
he was a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford. From 1994
to 1999, John was Chief Executive of the Natural Environment
Research Council and was Chairman of the UK Food Standards
Agency between 2000 and 2005. John was appointed as an
independent cross-bench peer in 2007.
He was the Chairman of the House of Lords Science and
Technology Select Committee between 2010 and 2014,
and was the Chairman of the UK Science and Technology
Honours Committee from 2008 to 2014. He serves on the UK
Climate Change Committee (and chairs its Adaptation Sub-
Committee), and is a Trustee of the Nuffield Foundation. From
2007 until 2015 John was the Principal of Jesus College, the
University of Oxford.
APPENDIX 1
Contributors