Dr Stephanie Wray

Chair

Steph carried out a PhD on brown hares at the University of Bristol in the 1990s and carried on working with protected mammal species throughout her career in as an ecological consultant, developing best practice in survey and mitigation for a range of species, for which she was awarded the Mammal Society medal in 2011.  Since a post-doc project on Livingstone’s bat in the Comores, Steph has had a particular interest in bats and is a member of Natural England’s Bat Expert Panel.  Steph has been a Director of Biocensus since 2011 and founded the specialist consultancy Nature Positive in 2020 where she specialises in business impacts on biodiversity, natural capital and ecosystem services.