Stephanie Hilborne
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Stephanie Hilborne | |
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| Born | 3 March 1968 |
| Alma mater | Bristol University, University College London |
| Awards | OBE |
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| Fields | Nature conservation |
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 “Stephanie Hilborne on the launch of the Natural Environment White Paper”, The Wildlife Trusts, June 7, 2011 |
Stephanie Vera Hilborne OBE (born 3 March 1968) is a British scientist and the CEO of Women in Sport.
Hilborne has a first class degree in Biology (1990) and an honorary doctorate in science (2015) from Bristol University.[1] She earned a Master's in Biology and Conservation from University College London in 1992.[2][3]
Career
As of 2010, Hilborne joined the board of trustees of the UK Green Building Council.[4][5] She later became vice chair of the UK Green Building Council.[3]
She joined the Wildlife and Countryside Link, a national coalition of environmental organizations, in 1998. In 2000 she joined the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, serving as its chief executive from 2000-2004.[3] In 2004, she became chief executive of The Wildlife Trust, a collective of the 47 local Wildlife Trusts. As a group in 2015, it manages 2,300 wildlife reserves, with over 2,000 staff, 35,000 volunteers and 800,000 members.[1]
Hilborne has been successful in campaigning for the Marine and Coastal Access Act (2009); contributing to Sir John Lawton's review, which was published as Making Space for Nature (2010); and working on a White Paper on the Natural Environment (2011). The White Paper pledged that the Conservative Party would be “the first generation to leave the environment in a better state than it found it”.[3][6][7]
Hilborne was one of the members of an independent panel on forestry which was formed in December 2010 and reported on 4 July 2012.[8][9][10] Hilborne served on the Smarter Environmental Regulation Review of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in 2014-2015.[11]
She was chief executive of The Wildlife Trusts from 2004 to 2019. She became the CEO of Women in Sport in 2019.[12]