James Watson

James is a Professor at the University of Queensland and leads the Green Fire Science research group whose mission is to do applied research that is linked directly to the practice of conservation and Research and Recovery of Endangered Species group.

James is a graduate of the Australian Defence Force Academy and Royal Military College. He completed his doctorate at the Oxford University in 2004, where funded by a Rhodes Scholarship he explored the effects of habitat fragmentation on birds in Madagascar and Australia. Since then, he has worked as a post doctoral fellow at the University of California (San Diego) and the University of Queensland and as a senior campaigner for The Wilderness Society in Australia and ran the climate change program (2010-2014) and then was Director Science at the Wildlife Conservation Society (2014-2020).