Meet Our Speakers

Fiona Flintan is a Senior Scientist at ILRI specialising in pastoralism, livestock and climate, land governance and tenure, participatory land use planning, participatory rangeland management (PRM), gender and conflict resolution and/or transformation. She has spent significant time working on these issues across Africa and particularly in East and Horn of Africa. She also leads a number of global projects and initiatives that cover South Asia, Central Asia, Middle East and Latin America too, as well as global engagement to raise awareness on rangelands in UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030, the upcoming International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP) 2026 and the International Land Coalition.