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David Mallon
David Mallon is a Special Advisor to the Species Survival Commission, a member of the IUCN Red List Committee, and the Green List Task Force and was a member of the IUCN SSC Species Conservation Planning Task Force (2004-2009) and Species Conservation Planning Subcommittee (2010-2016). He has been Co-Chair of the Antelope Specialist Group since 2004 and is a member of the Caprinae, Cat, Equid, Giraffe and Okapi, and Sustainable Use Specialist Groups. He is an Associate Lecturer in the Division of Biology and Conservation Ecology, Manchester Metropolitan University, teaching on the MSc course in Conservation Biology and supervising postgraduate student projects and work placement. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, an Honorary Conservation Fellow, Zoological Society of London. He studied for a university degree in Russian and French before turning to ecology, completing MSc and PhD research on large mammals in the Ladakh Himalaya, India. He has over 30 years of experience working mainly in the Himalaya, Tibetan Plateau, Mongolia, Central Asia, Arabia and the Caucasus, involving biodiversity and habitat assessments, species surveys, protected area support, and training local partners.