Jamie Copsey

Jamie Copsey is a wildlife conservation scientist with more than 30 years of experience in capacity development for conservation research and practice. He holds a permanent position within the world’s largest international network of conservation scientists, and he regularly lectures on higher conservation science and practice leadership programs at the University of Edinburgh and previously at the University of Kent and Imperial College, London. His work currently focuses on the design and facilitation of complex multi-stakeholder decision-making processes to inform the science and practice of biodiversity conservation, with a particular centring on endangered species recovery. Group decision-making, stakeholder engagement, conflict resolution and program design and leadership are his core areas of interest and experience. 

Mr. Copsey has published widely on conservation science-related topics, including conservation management and leadership, wildlife conservation program evaluation and impact and endangered species recovery. He has led EU-funded public engagement research and multiple international conservation science and practice projects that result in the implementation of conservation research actions to reduce uncertainty and improve our understanding of biodiversity conservation processes. He also regularly contributes to evaluations of the conservation impacts of organisations worldwide.

Mr. Copsey has delivered hundreds of training courses and workshops at post-graduate level, training thousands of conservation scientists over the years. He regularly mentors research scientists in how to design and facilitate their own collaborative research and practice projects.