Diego Juffe Bignoli

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PhD Title: Death by a dozen cuts: Mitigation of biodiversity impacts from Development Corridors in Africa
Diego Juffe Bignoli is a conservation professional with a BSc in Agronomy from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and a master’s degree in Environmental Management of Protected Areas and Countryside from Birkbeck College, University of London (UK). He has more than 20 years of professional experience, including 13 years based in Cambridge (UK), mainly at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and UNEP-WCMC (the UN-affiliated biodiversity centre of expertise), as well as one year at The Biodiversity Consultancy. 
Since 2021, he has been working as an independent biodiversity consultant while finalising a part-time PhD at DICE, University of Kent. His research focuses on developing spatially explicit methodologies to assess the direct, indirect, and cumulative impacts on biodiversity from large-scale infrastructure development initiatives, known as Development Corridors.