Highest Degree
MSc Tourism, Environment & Development, BA African Language & Culture (SOAS, London)
Job Type
Research
Data Management
Natural Resource Management
Technical Advice & Consulting
Subject Area
Policy
Law
Economics
Management
Activities
Monitoring and evaluation, conducting sustainable livelihoods assessments, socio-economic research, feasibility studies of markets and community-level enterprises and proposition of improved or alternative income generating activities, marine park management, financing.
Skills
Paul Harrison has over 20 years’ work experience in Africa, Asia, South America and Europe in conservation strategy, field biodiversity and ecosystem conservation, conservation finance, project and programme management, business financing and management, staff management and mentoring, agribusiness management and social entrepreneurship.
He is a director of several companies working in the sphere of natural resources management and nature based solutions, including Executive Chairman of an award-winning timber company, Sound and Fair, and specialist advisory positions in biodiversity conservation and ESG-ready investments into frontier markets.
Paul is a former Global Advisor to the United Nations Development Programme, where he held dual roles of setting up and running the donor financed Global Wildlife Programme, in collaboration with counterparts from other UN entities and the World Bank (working to tackle the illegal wildlife trade, from supply through trafficking and through demand), and managing and securing finance for a portfolio of ecosystem and biodiversity conservation initiatives.
His work has led to the financing of several hundred million dollars into global conservation efforts, public and private. His work has enabled the conservation and security of vast areas of protected areas, wild habitats and community managed lands, particularly in Africa and development of functional nature based solutions.
He is a member of the WWF UK Programme Committee—providing advice and scrutiny of WWF-UK’s activities, answering to the board. Paul is also a member of IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas and additionally a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Paul has an MSc. In Tourism, Environment and Development (2001) and a BA (Hons) in African Language and Culture (1999), both from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and a he is a fluent Swahili speaker.
