I joined WildCRU in 2016. As Assistant Unit Manager I support the administration of WildCRU and the Recanati-Kaplan Centre at Tubney House, and also I coordinate the Trans-Kalahari Predator Programme. I work closely with students and staff, communicating their research across various channels while seeking to develop and improve WildCRU’s outreach strategy. As Trans-Kalahari Predator Programme Coordinator I liaise with our regional offices in Botswana and Zimbabwe assisting Dr Andrew Loveridge with finance and grant administration and managing communications and donor relations.

I am on the board of trustees for the WildCAT Botswana Trust which was founded in 2016 to support the coordination and implementation of the Trans-Kalahari Predator Programme conservation research and coexistence activities. Outside of WildCRU I act as a trustee for the Arkleton Trust, a small charity that supports rural communities through a bottom-up approach.

Prior to joining WildCRU I worked within the tourism industry, where I was marketing and managing photographic safari lodges across sub-Saharan Africa, and later, within the philanthropic sector I managed educational travel and events for an international giving circle.

Please contact me on either emma.stewart-wood@zoo.ox.ac.uk or 01865 611100 if you have any general queries.