
Speakers
Speakers and workshop leaders will share tales from their recent expeditions, while Society staff will be available to provide personalised advice and guidance on your own future field projects and expeditions.
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Leonidas Romanos Davranoglou
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow.

Ricardo Rocha
Ricardo is an ecologist and explorer who is an Associate Professor in Conservation Science at Oxford University. His work is rooted in ecological theory and involves biodiversity surveys across large-scale experiments, real world working landscapes and island ecosystems.

Zoe Salt
Zoe is a photographer based in London. Last year she was part of the High Level Route expedition in the Alps.

Will Close-Ash
Will runs Mountain Energy with his wife, Naomi.

Tony Foster
Travelling slowly, on foot or by canoe or raft, and carrying his painting and camping equipment he makes his paintings in response to what he finds on his journeys.

Tom Everett
Dr Tom Everett is a General Practitioner with a background of experience in anaesthesia, emergency, diving and expedition medicine.

Tim Jacob
Tim designs education and outreach programmes at Reach the World, a global education non-profit that uses virtual exchange to connect field scientists and explorers with K-12 classrooms.

Thomas Starnes
Thom is Key Biodiversity Areas Programme Officer with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Cambridge.

Suzannah Egleston
Suzannah recently completed an MRes in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation at Imperial College London.

Susannah Cass
Susannah is a part-time Associate Lecturer in Ecology and Environmental Science at the Open University; and a rowing coach, expedition leader, theatre manager and education researcher.

Suresh Paul
Suresh is founder of Equal Adventure, that delivers inclusion training and creates enabling adventure expedition and sports equipment.

Steve Boyes
Conservationist, National Geographic Explorer, and TED Senior Fellow Dr Steve Boyes has dedicated his life to preserving Africa’s wilderness areas and the species that depend upon them.