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 stakeholder-led methods for assessing the social impacts of protected areas and their governance, equity in conservation, links between conservation and development, managing trade-offs between conservation and food production in Africa, and social and environmental safeguards. 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