Wendy Foden South Africa

Wendy Foden is a Senior Scientist at the South African National Parks and leads the organisation in Climate Change Preparedness and in implementing a range of climate change adaptation initiatives for biodiversity. She chairs the IUCN Species Survival Commission’s Climate Change Specialist Group and is an Extraordinary Professor at Stellenbosch University. Wendy received the British Ecological Society Marsh Award for outstanding climate change research and the IUCN George Rabb Award for innovative conservation. She has a passion for deserts and plants, and studies climate change impacts on giant succulents in Southern Africa’s Namib region.