Kerrie Wilson

Professor Kerrie Wilson is an ARC Future Fellow at The University of Queensland (UQ), Director of the Australian
Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions and an Affiliated Professor in Conservation
Science at The University of Copenhagen. Kerrie holds a degree in Environmental Science (First Class Honours,
awarded in 1999) from UQ and a Doctor of Philosophy from The University of Melbourne in 2004 undertaken in
collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme – World Conservation Monitoring Centre located in
Cambridge.

She has a particular interest in applied conservation resource allocation problems, such as where to
invest limited resources to protect or restore biodiversity and the role of ecosystem services in achieving
conservation goals. Her research has been published in high impact journals such as Nature and Science and
involves collaborations with governmental and NGOs at local, national and global levels.