Over a 30-year career as a quantitative biologist, Dr. Chris Wilcox has worked with NGOs, philanthropic donors, government and private enterprise to develop cost effective solutions to natural resource management problems. His research has included biodiversity offsets, population estimation, analysis of satellite tracking data, optimization of invasive species eradication, management of fisheries, reserve design and management, understanding the impacts of plastic pollution, and control of illegal fishing.
Dr. Wilcox has published 174 scientific articles, and been cited over 23,000 times in the last 5 years. He has won the Australia’s national Eureka award for environmental science, been a finalist for the Gates Foundation’s Best Ideas in Innovative Finance, and won the Ocean Innovation Award for his fisheries surveillance technology work in 2022.
He currently leads WildAid’s Marine Program, working to improve enforcement in marine potected areas and fisheries management in 20 countries across Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific.
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Oct 10 2025 (19:00 - 19:45)
Oct 13 2025 (12:00 - 13:00)