Stewart Maginnis
Global Director, Nature-based Solutions Group
Director, Global Forest and Climate Change Programme
Photo: IUCN
Expertise: forest conservation and management, rural poverty reduction and forests, forest law enforcement and governance, forest rights and tenure, forest landscape restoration, the role of forest management in biodiversity conservation.
Location: Gland, Switzerland
Language: English, Spanish
Contact: press
Stewart Maginnis is the Global Director of the Nature-based Solutions Group, with overall responsibility for IUCN’s work on Ecosystem Management, Forests, Water, Gender, Social Policy, Economics and Business & Biodiversity.
Stewart has over 28 years of broad experience in the area of natural resource management, biodiversity conservation and sustainable development, including 13 years full-time field work in Tanzania, Sudan, Ghana and Costa Rica. More recently he has worked extensively in national and international natural resource and climate change policy arenas. During the past 12 years he has been a recognized leader in the conceptual development and promotion of “forest landscape restoration” (FLR), an approach which has now been adopted by many national and international polices and initiatives, including the Bonn Challenge to restore 150 million hectares of impoverished and degraded landscapes over the forthcoming decade.
An agriculturalist by training, he holds a M.Sc. in Forestry and Land Use from the University of Oxford and has been a study fellow at the University of Manchester. He has a keen interest in the linkage between forest conservation and livelihood security of the rural poor, the practical application of ecosystem or landscapes approaches in forest management and on the role of civil society in local and national natural resource governance arrangements.
