Professor Georgina Mace, CBE, FRS is Professor of Conservation Science and Director of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London.
She was the winner of the 2007 International Cosmos Prize. She has been a Vice President of the British Ecological Society, President of the Society for Conservation Biology, a member of the Science Committee of Diversitas and editor of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Series B.)
Professor Mace was instrumental in developing the criteria for listing species in the IUCN Red List, the most comprehensive inventory on the conservation status of the world's species species conservation contributing to the maintenance of global biodiversity and managed by IUCN. Many Regional Red List publications are now increasingly based on the same criteria. She was actively involved in the biodiversity sections of the “Millennium Ecosystem Assessment” which was conducted from 2002 through 2005.
Since 2002 she and hercolleagues have worked to establish methods for evaluating biodiversity and the ecosystem services it provides, and changes in biodiversity that have been provisionally measured by the Red List Index.
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002. In July 2007 she was awarded an Honorary D.Sc by Sussex University for her work on biodiversity.