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Philip McGowan
Philip joined Newcastle University (UK) in 2012 after 20 years working on threatened Galliformes (pheasants, grouse, cracids and relatives) in Asia, Africa and South America, and especially India, Nepal, China, Djibouti and Thailand. He led the production of IUCN Action Plans for a range of bird groups during the 1990s and early 2000s, was involved in evaluating the contribution of the IUCN Action Plan series and then engaged with the species conservation planning process of IUCN’s Species Survival Commission since 2007. Philip served as Co-chair of the SSC Policy Subcommittee of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature 2015-16 and has experience of intergovernmental conventions and processes. He now seeks to identify and undertake research that will be of most use in informing and shaping global policy concerned with enhancing the status of species, and ensuring that such research is communicated appropriately.