E67: Evan Bowen-Jones

Evan Bowen-Jones, Chief Executive of Kent Wildlife Trust, has been working on delivering KWT’s ambitious strategy for a Wilder Kent during his time in the role. This strategy focuses on finding impactful local solutions to address the national and global nature and climate crises we all face, doing so with speed and in the most defensible and pragmatic manner possible. This is where Wilder Carbon was born: an initiative that now has a dozen English Wildlife Trusts, as well as the John Muir Trust in Scotland, signed up as local deliverers, making it scalable and investable. Evan has a 25-year professional conservation background, which includes the implementation of species and landscape-level conservation projects; analysis of international policy; and working with NGOs, governments, and corporations to deliver real gains for wildlife worldwide.