Edward Lewis
Senior Policy Advisor (International Forestry Unit)
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEdward Lewis is a senior policy advisor and conservation planner with a decade of experience translating ecological science into practical policy and on-the-ground forestry management. He combines UK government roles in international forestry and biodiversity funds with hands-on forest planning experience at Forestry England and technical project delivery at UNEP-WCMC, including designing a protected area network for South Georgia. Trained to first-class honours in Ecological Sciences and with an MSc in Forestry (Distinction), he bridges rigorous academic grounding and applied GIS-driven conservation planning. He focuses on protected areas, landscape-scale biodiversity finance, and stakeholder-driven conservation models that link community wellbeing with long-term ecological outcomes. Based in Cambridge, he brings a semi-wild childhood curiosity about woodlands to pragmatic policy-making, often translating complex spatial analyses into fundable, locally relevant interventions.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelorâs Degree (Bsc), Ecological Sciences (Forestry Hons), 1st Class Degree., Bachelorâs Degree (Bsc), Ecological Sciences (Forestry Hons), 1st Class Degree. at The University of EdinburghMaster's degree (Msc), Forestry, Distinction, Master's degree (Msc), Forestry, Distinction at Bangor University
Github Skills (5)
analytical7
metadata6
protected1
planet1
api1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
EdwardMLewis/wdpa-statistics
Apr 2016 - May 2020
A repository for analytical models and scripts on the WDPA and their metadata.
Contributions:86 commits, 43 PRs, 87 pushes in 4 years 1 month
metadataanalyticalanalytical-models
EdwardMLewis/temporal_wdpa
Apr 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 8 branches in 10 months
outputstemporalanalyticalmethodology
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