Peter James STEPHENSON

PJ is an independent conservation consultant based in Switzerland. He has been involved in species research and conservation for over 30 years. His monitoring-related work started in 1985-6 when he conducted mammal surveys in Malagasy rain forests. After studying tenrecs in Madagascar for his PhD, he went on to work for Scottish Natural Heritage in the Cairngorms, WWF in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania, and Conservation International in Côte d'Ivoire. He moved on to establish and manage elephant, great ape and rhino programmes for WWF's Africa & Madagascar Programme. Between 2007 and 2016 he was WWF International's Director of Conservation Strategy & Performance where he drove results-based management across the network, introducing monitoring systems that measured delivery of WWF's priority programmes and global goals for the first time in the organization's history. Later, he was Senior Advisor, Monitoring, in IUCN's Science & Knowledge team in Gland and a Senior Research Fellow at ETH Zürich. As well as heading up the Species Monitoring SG, he is a member of the IUCN SSC specialist groups for Primates and Afrotheria and the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas. Since August 2020 he has been affiliated with the Laboratory for Conservation Biology at the University of Lausanne.