Alice is an experienced conservation professional with more than a decade of experience in stakeholder engagement, environmental policy and programme management. She has worked in the e-NGO, public and private sectors to deliver impactful conservation policy and programming, with a focus on the interplay between forests and agriculture.

Before joining Avon Needs Trees, Alice was a strategic advisor at Global Counsel, where she helped businesses navigate nature related policy and politics, as well as the burgeoning nature finance market and the circular economy. She has also previously worked for Defra, both as an international sustainable agriculture programme manager and marine conservation negotiator. Earlier in her career she was an ecological consultant, and Research and Education Coordinator for the Crees Foundation, a rainforest conservation organisation.

Alice has an MSc in Conservation and Biodiversity. Through this and other projects she has worked on improving habitat connectivity across fragmented areas, bringing together numerous stakeholders to deliver impactful projects with tangible environmental, social and economic benefits. She will bring this expertise to Avon Needs Trees to help deliver the Landscape Recovery Programme.