Curriculum Vitae
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Dr Julian Oliver CALDECOTT
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Education: Doctorate (Ph.D.) in tropical rain-forest ecology and primate behaviour, University of Cambridge, UK (1983). B.Sc. (First Class Honours) in biology, University of Southampton, UK (1978).
Professional experience:
Julian Caldecott is an ecologist and environmental consultant who since 1984 has practiced in South and SE Asia, Europe, West Africa and the Americas on: (a) strategic and policy analysis; (b) project monitoring, evaluation & assessment; (c) cross-cutting issues such as climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, environmental & livelihood security, and impacts of climate change on biodiversity, ecosystems & people; (d) project management & team leadership; (e) project design, identification & formulation; (f) assessment & design of environmentally-sustainable businesses; and (h) design of impact & monitoring systems.
Career summary:
2003-2009: With the United Nations:
• 2007-2009: UN Consultant to prepare publications on case studies of solving environmental problems through innovative policies and laws, environmental management and the practice of reducing disaster risk, and multilateral environmental agreements as a global response to the crisis of sustainability.
• 2006-2007: Senior Technical Adviser to the UNEP Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch, with fieldwork on tsunami, earthquake and volcano damage and restoration techniques.
• 2005: Environmental Assessment Coordinator for Sri Lanka with the UNEP Asian Tsunami Disaster Task Force.
• 2003-2005: Director of the Early Warning and Assessment Division of the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, providing strategic leadership for assessing ecosystem and taxon status, trends and emerging issues.
1993-2009: Field and desk-based consultancies for official donors and NGOs, focusing on:
• climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, reduced GHG emissions through avoided forest loss;
• management of biodiversity, protected areas, community forests, biosphere reserves and coastal habitats;
• carbon and biodiversity investments, intellectual property rights, sustainable financing mechanisms;
• environmental monitoring, institutional development, environmental education.
1991-1992: adviser on biodiversity management to the Government of Indonesia:
• supporting the Ministry of State for Environment in developing policy on biodiversity management;
• managing a twinning programme between biodiversity institutions in Costa Rica and Indonesia.
1988-1991: designing and managing integrated conservation and development projects in south-eastern Nigeria; conservation needs assessment for Nigeria (under TFAP); Fellowship at the East-West Centre, Hawaii.
1984-1988: field research in Malaysian Borneo on human ecology, behaviour and ecology of prey animals, conservation of rhinos and other endangered species, economic valuation of wild species and ecosystem services, national park planning, and integrated conservation and development planning.
Publications:
Julian Caldecott has written numerous reports, technical publications and books. His major published works include An Ecological and Behavioural Study of the Pig-tailed Macaque (Karger, 1986), Hunting and Wildlife Management in Sarawak (IUCN, 1988), Designing Conservation Projects (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Decentralisation and Biodiversity Conservation (World Bank, 1996), the World Atlas of Great Apes and their Conservation (California University Press, 2005), and Water: the Causes, Costs and Future of a Global Crisis (Virgin Books, 2008).
Other roles:
Teaching seminars and examining graduate dissertations at several universities (e.g. Cambridge, Hawaii, Kiel, Dalhousie, Australian National, Sydney), and speaking on environmental themes such as water, climate change and sustainability to museums, schools, universities, business groups and the media.
Assessing projects as a Member of UNEP’s Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) Roster of Experts: in this capacity undertaking STAP reviews of Global Environment Facility (GEF) proposals for conservation programmes in Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Central Asia, Chile, India, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam, for monitoring and reporting on global biodiversity indicators, and for the IFC’s Environmental Business Finance Programme.
