Dr. Louisa Richmond-Coggan
Twenty-five years working on complex conservation challenges, from field ecology in Eastern and Southern Africa to international NGO and policy work, academic leadership, and conservation technology decision-making. The work has brought together local communities, governments, corporations, funders, academic institutions, and policy standards bodies across the Global South and beyond.
Working across those disciplines, actors, and geographies means understanding the competing interests, governance constraints, and operational realities behind any conservation technology decision. That's what I bring.
We are building the structured decision-support layer that conservation technology adoption is missing
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Why work with me?
Conservation Expertise
A PhD in conservation science, more than a decade across international NGOs (BirdLife International, UNEP-WCMC, TRAFFIC International, Earthwatch Institute), and two and a half years as Head of Ecology at the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia, working across human-wildlife coexistence, citizen science, and community-based research. I conceived and built the Carnivore Tracker app, the first of its kind in Namibia.
I founded LRC Wildlife Conservation Consulting in 2017 to lead Namibia's National Leopard Census, a multi-stakeholder project whose results fed directly into national and international policy.
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Active member of the IUCN WCPA Task Force on Human-Wildlife Coexistence, including presenting at the IUCN World Conservation Congress IUCN Green List Pavilion in October 2025. Member of the Nature Tech Collective and Top Tier Impact.
Technology and Decision-Support
The Academic Dean role at the School of Wildlife Conservation at the African Leadership University reframed conservation as an economic discipline and raised the question of which technologies could make that real in practice. In partnership with Unearthodox, which produced Navigating Web 3.0 Guide: A Tool for Conservation, now integrated into the IUCN GSAP SKILLS platform. Working with IUCN Tech4Nature led to three Innovation Challenge Workshops on AI and IoT, blockchain, and gamification with 18 world-class experts and contributions to IUCN Tech4Nature's strategic guidance documentation on technology innovation and inclusive governance.
Designing and moderating sessions for IUCN Tech4Nature at the IUCN World Conservation Congress (2025), and co-organising sessions at the International Conservation Technology Conference in Lima (2026), confirmed the same finding: the gap isn't technology. It's structured decision-making.
Based in Nottingham, UK.
Technology-agnostic. No vendor affiliations.