Lilian Painter, is an conservation practitioner with a PhD in Behavioral Ecology from Liverpool University, UK. Since 2005 she has led the Bolivia Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society and has focused on integrating local, national, and regional perspectives and efforts to achieve tangible benefits for both nature and people. She was a lead author of the IPBES Scenarios and Models Assessment, and of the Science Panel for the Amazon. In 2017, she was a Dorothy S. McCluskey visiting researcher in Conservation at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Her expertise includes strategic conservation planning, wildlife and natural resource management, indigenous territorial management and protected area management.