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Professor Brendan Wintle is a biodiversity conservation scientist at the University of Melbourne, Director of the Melbourne Biodiversity Institute and founder of Australia’s Biodiversity Council. He specialises in biodiversity science, spatial modelling, decision support, and assessing nature risk in economic development and investment. He is widely recognised for his work on how environmental decisions are made under uncertainty in the context of biodiversity decline and climate change. He was director of Australia’s National Threatened Species Recovery Research Hub (2016-2022), coordinating lead author for Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, elected Fellow of the Victorian Royal Society, and serves as non-executive director at Zoos Victoria.