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Guy Duke

Guy Duke

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Senior Visiting Research Associate at the ECI

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Guy Duke is a Senior Visiting Research Associate at the ECI, working on the Ecosystems Research Theme. His main area of expertise is on EU policy and programming and financial instruments for natural capital and ecosystem services. He is currently focusing on issues relating to development of an EU ecosystems market.

Guy consults independently on EU environmental policy, programming and knowledge exchange. He is Director Europe at The Environment Bank Ltd, a company at the forefront of emerging ecosystems markets in the UK. Guy was appointed by the Secretary of State for Environment as an Independent Member of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (statutory adviser to UK government on UK and international nature conservation). He also sits on the Steering Committee of the European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils. He chairs EURAPMON, a European Science Foundation ‘Research Networking Programme’ on ‘Monitoring for and with raptors in Europe’, and is an evaluator for the EC Research Executive Agency.

From 2002-07, Guy was Principal Administrator Biodiversity Policy at the European Commission, DG Environment. In this capacity, he was architect of the 2006 EU policy which introduced the concept of ecosystem services to the EU acquis and strengthened attention to the economic value of nature. He played a key role in launching the study on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB). He also created a multi-million euro portfolio of science-to-policy projects addressing key issues such as ecosystem fragmentation, and biodiversity and climate change.

Prior to joining the Commission, Guy was a director in the International Development Services division of Environmental Resources Management (ERM) for whom he created a natural resources and biodiversity business with donor clients (World Bank, EC, DFID, etc.). In his early career he pioneered, for BirdLife International, a major conservation and development project among remote, tribal communities in the Pakistan Himalaya and led numerous research expeditions, making a series of ecological discoveries.

Guy Duke has authored many reports, policy papers, technical and research proposals, peer-reviewed papers and popular articles. He has mobilised over €20 million for natural resources management and biodiversity projects under his direction. He holds M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in environmental sciences from London and Durham and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He lives and works in Brussels.

Selected publications, reports and proposals

  • Duke, G. (ed.) (2011) ForNATURA – Better implementation and policy for forested Natura 2000 sites. Proposal to European Commission INTERREG IVC. National Institute for Agricultural Economics, Italy. 75 pages.
  • Duke, G. (ed.) (2011) Research and Monitoring for and with Raptors in Europe – Inaugural Workshop – Final Report. EURAPMON, Brussels. 192 pages.
  • Duke, G. (2010). EEAC – Application for an NGO Operating Grant 2011. European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils. 175 pages.
  • Duke, G. (2010) LWEC and the EU – an overview of knowledge exchange issues with recommendations for LWEC. Directorate, Living with Environmental Change, University of East Anglia. 157 pages.
  • Duke, G (2010) The Relevance of Habitat Banking to EU policies. The Environment Bank Ltd. 4 pages.
  • Duke, G. (2008) Research and Monitoring for and with Raptors in Europe. Proposal to the European Science Foundation for a Research Networking Programme. CEH UK. 16 pages.
  • Movalli, P. & Duke, G. (eds). 2008. Editorial. Ambio 37(6), 393.
  • Movalli, P., Duke, G. & Osborn, D. 2008. Introduction to monitoring for and with raptors. In: Movalli, P. & Duke, G. (eds). Monitoring for and with raptors in Europe. Ambio 37(6), 395-396.
  • Duke, G. 2008. The EU environmental policy context for monitoring for and with raptors in Europe. In: Movalli, P. & Duke, G. (eds). Monitoring for and with raptors in Europe. Ambio 37(6), 397-400.
  • Duke, G. (ed.). 2007. A Stern-like Biodiversity Study (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) – Brainstorm Meeting 27 June 2007, DG Environment, Brussels - Report with Operational Conclusions. DG Environment, European Commission. 99 pages.
  • Dimas, S. 2006. A challenge as serious as climate change. Public Service Review European Union issue 12, 2006, 99-100.
  • European Commission. 2006. Communication from the Commission. Halting the Loss of Biodiversity by 2010 – and Beyond. Sustaining Ecosystem Services for Human Well-being. COM(2006)216 final. 15 pages.
  • European Commission. 2006. EU Action Plan to 2010 and Beyond. Technical Annex to the Communication from the Commission, Halting the Loss of Biodiversity by 2010 – and Beyond. Sustaining Ecosystem Services for Human Well-being. SEC(2006)621. 14 pages.
  • Duke, G. (ed.) 2005. Biodiversity and the EU – Sustaining Life, Sustaining Livelihoods: Conference Report. Stakeholder Conference held under the Irish Presidency of The European Union in partnership with the European Commission, 25th - 27th May 2004, Grand Hotel, Malahide, Ireland. 266 pages.