Maria Tengö
Trustee
Maria Tengö is a principal researcher in Sustainability Science at the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), Sweden and holds the Nature College Special Chair in Human–Nature Relationships in the Anthropocene at the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University and Research (WUR), the Netherlands. She is also a senior advisor at SwedBio, a programme working at the interface of science, policy and practice regarding biodiversity, ecosystem services, and poverty alleviation. Maria’s work focuses on conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystems using a social-ecological systems approach. She has a transdisciplinary profile, with research and practice of co-production of knowledge and action in the context of connecting local case-based research to global sustainability issues and global level science–policy processes. She has developed theory and practice at the interface between ecology and the social sciences, working with conservation, ecosystem management, agroecology and local and Indigenous knowledge and practices in Tanzania, Madagascar, South Africa, India, Brazil and Sweden. She has long-term experience of science–policy–practice interfaces in particular concerning synergies between Indigenous, local and scientific knowledge systems, in local case studies and in connection to the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Central in her work is the development of the Multiple Evidence Base approach, which has had significant impact on policy and practice. 
