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Ghislaine "Gilly" Llewellyn, Ph.D.
Marine Conservation Biologist
Areas of Expertise: Tropical marine ecology, marine community ecology, large-scale spatial and temporal trends in reef eco-systems, marine conservation planning, and marine protected area management and design.
Ghislaine Llewellyn is the Oceans Program leader with WWF-Australia. Originally from South West Wales, Ghislaine grew up near the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, and was inspired from an early age by the sea and its creatures. She has an undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University, a PhD in Earth Sciences from Harvard University, and more than ten years experience scientific research and on-the-ground conservation experience. In the policy arena she spent several years leading WWF's international and Asia Pacific marine protected area work, and helped launch large-scale multi-country conservation efforts towards building networks of Marine protected areas in East Africa, SE Asia, and Melanesia. She has also led numerous scientific expeditions within the Caribbean, worked with a local university and local students in Indonesia, spent ten days in an underwater habitat off Florida, worked with submersibles off the Bahamas, and authored WWF's green reconstruction guidelines following the Tsunami in Aceh. Ghislaine has authored several scientific publications including on conservation planning, hurricane impacts, and development approaches, and has given numerous public lectures and presentations, including at the National Zoo in Washington DC and at the Convention on Biological Diversity. She is currently based in Brisbane, and in her spare time enjoys scuba diving, travel, movies and books.
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