Dr. Lucilla Spini
Head of Science Programmes, International Council for Science (ICSU)
Dr. Lucilla Spini, a biological anthropologist with expertise in sustainability science and international science/policy bridging, is the Head of Science Programmes at the International Council for Science (ICSU). Before joining ICSU, she has worked on biodiversity conservation, global environmental change, sustainable development and S&T capacity building for a number of international organizations including UNESCO, UNU, and FAO of the UN. Dr. Spini holds a B.A. in anthropology from New York University (USA), as well as a M.Sc. in human biology and D.Phil. in biological anthropology, both from the University of Oxford (UK). She has been an Adjunct Professor at the School of Geography and Earth Science at McMaster University (Canada) and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Waterloo (Canada). Dr. Spini is an Old Member of Linacre College (Oxford) and an Alumna Fellow of the Sustainability Science Program at the Harvard’s Kennedy School.