Joli Borah

Joli is a conservation scientist with broad research interests in sustainable management of multifunctional landscapes for biodiversity conservation and human well-being and science-policy interface.

Her doctoral work at the University of Sheffield, U.K. examined the biodiversity and carbon value of the traditionally managed shifting cultivation landscapes in Nagaland, Northeast India.

Post-PhD, Joli worked as a Conservation Officer at the Royal Society for Protection of Birds (RSPB) to help farmers sustainably manage their land to protect breeding bird communities under the Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) in County Farmanagh, Northern Ireland.

Her recent position as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, focused on biodiversity assessment and monitoring to understand how integrated landscape approaches can help manage complex landscapes to reconcile social, economic and biodiversity goals in Indonesia, Ghana, and Zambia.