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Speakers

Expert speakers and workshop leaders will share tales from the field and give advice on your own future projects and expeditions.

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Entomologist

Leonidas Romanos Davranoglou

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow.

Conservation biologist

Ricardo Rocha

Ricardo is an ecologist and explorer who is an Associate Professor in Conservation Science at Oxford University. His work is rooted in ecological theory and involves biodiversity surveys across large-scale experiments, real world working landscapes and island ecosystems.

Photographer

Zoe Salt

Zoe is a photographer based in London. Last year she was part of the High Level Route expedition in the Alps.

School and youth expeditions

Will Close-Ash

Will runs Mountain Energy with his wife, Naomi.

Art of exploration

Tony Foster

Travelling slowly, on foot or by canoe or raft, and carrying his painting and camping equipment he makes his paintings in response to what he finds on his journeys.

School and youth expeditions

Tim Jacob

Tim designs education and outreach programmes at Reach the World, a global education non-profit that uses virtual exchange to connect field scientists and explorers with K-12 classrooms.

Biological and natural sciences

Thomas Starnes

Thom is Key Biodiversity Areas Programme Officer with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Cambridge.

Inclusive expeditions exhibitor

Suresh Paul

Suresh is founder of Equal Adventure, that delivers inclusion training and creates enabling adventure expedition and sports equipment.

Polar

Stephen Jones

Steve has hard-won leadership experience in high-risk environments and is an expert on expedition planning, safety management, and polar expeditions.

Mountains, travels with purpose, Oceans and Rivers

Spike Reid

Spike is an international mountain leader, photographer and experienced in diving, climbing, fell-running and sailing.

expedition advice

Shane Winser

Shane convenes Explore and provides advice, information and training to some 1,500 plus scientific, educational, and adventurous expeditions each year.

Film, Cameraman

Sean Lovell

Sean is an award-winning British documentary Filmmaker who likes to make creative films about the environment, social causes and local communities.

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