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\"\"Tom Oliver<\/a><\/strong> is the Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research (Environment) at the University of Reading and a Professor of Applied Ecology. He has closely advised the UK government and European Commission on topics of systemic risk assessment and how to tackle the root causes of environmental crisis, and he is author of the \u2018<\/span>The Self Delusion: The Surprising Science of Our Connection to Each Other and the Natural World<\/span><\/a>\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Matt Pritchard<\/strong><\/a><\/u>\u00a0was a Director in Sustainability and co-lead of the Nature Practice at Baringa Partners, having previously spent 20 years in the UK Government where he co-chaired the C<\/u>ivil Service Environment Network and was on cross-departmental working groups for adaptation, resilience, strategy and skills. With a doctorate in naturalism and embodied cognition from the University of Oxford, he is a Policy Fellow at the University of Cambridge and a Research Associate at the University of Reading.’<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/strong>Marzia Briel <\/a><\/strong>is a South African foreign Qualified Lawyer and Lecturer at the University of Reading. Her academic interests centre around identifying and solving the risk of exploitation of public knowledge, goods, utilities and funds. Bringing over 15 years of global regulatory and governance experience to Academia, she is solution and impact driven in her research activities. The key themes of her Research include Exploitative Governance ecosystems, Regulation (including Risk-based Regulation and Artificial Intelligence Regulation), Global inequity, Science Policy, Land Law and Intellectual Property Law.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Phil Tovey<\/strong> is working as the \u2018Director of Nature-centric Approaches\u2019 for the ASRA network (Accelerator for Systemic Risk Assessment). He was previously Head of Futures at Defra and is a visiting research fellow at the University of Reading.<\/p>\n

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