Phil Franks

Principal researcher (biodiversity), Natural Resources

Phil Franks is an expert on the social dimension of natural resource management and conservation, with a particular focus on better understanding and applying social equity principles in this context.

Full biography

He is currently working on the development of low-cost methods for assessing the social impacts of protected areas and protected area governance, conservation-development linkages, and social and environmental safeguards for REDD+, the international effort to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. He has extensive experience in Africa, Nepal, Southeast Asia and South America.

Expertise

Conservation and human-wellbeing/poverty, natural resource governance, REDD+, climate-smart agriculture
Particular experience in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, DRC, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Ghana, Nepal, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru

Before IIED

Global coordinator, Poverty, Environmental and Climate Change Network, CARE International
Project coordinator, BirdLife International
Project manager, Development through Conservation, CARE Uganda.
MA Natural Sciences, Cambridge University. MSc Resource Management, Edinburgh University