Georgina M. Mace, Ph.D.
Director of Science, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London

Email: georgina.mace@ioz.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)207-449-6600
Fax: +44 (0)207-586-2870

Georgina Mace is the current Director of Science for the Institute of Zoology at the Zoological Society of London.  After graduating from Liverpool University in 1976 Georgina went on to obtain her doctorate from the University of Sussex .  She has since held several zoological-related research posts, and has written and co-authored a number of scientific papers. Georgina 's main area of research is conservation

biology, emphasizing evolutionary, ecological and genetic aspects for the formulation of conservation policy.  She is particularly interested in the assessment and management of populations of threatened species, and in the dynamics of extinction pressures.  Georgina currently sits on the Council of the RSPB, the IUCN Red List Committee, and the Natural Environment Research Council's Science & Technology Board, and between 1997 and 2001 she edited the Cambridge journal Animal Conservation.  She was awarded the OBE in 1998, and in 2002 was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society and has been a member of Durrell Wildlife's Council since 1998.

Research interests

Dr. Mace's research interests include conservation biology, emphasizing evolutionary, ecological and genetic aspects, for the formulation of conservation policy. She is particularly interested in the assessment and management of populations of threatened species, and in the dynamics of extinction pressures.

Selected publications

Mace, G. M. & Lande, R. (1991) Assessing extinction threats: towards a reassessment of IUCN endangered species categories. Conservation Biology 5:148-157.

Heywood, V.H., Mace, G. M., May, R.M. & Stuart, S.N. (1994) Uncertainties in extinction rates. Nature 368: 105.

Mace, G. M. (1994) Classifying threatened species: means and ends. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc . B344: 91-97.

Kershaw, M., Mace, G. M. & Williams, P. (1995) Threatened status, rarity and diversity as alternative selection measures for protected areas: a test using Afrotropical antelopes. Conservation Biology. 9: 324-334.

Mace, G. M. & Collar, N. J. (1995) Extinction risk assessment for birds through quantitative criteria. Ibis 137: S240-246.

Ginsberg, J. R., Mace, G. M. & Albon , S.D. (1995) Local extinction in a small and declining population: wild dogs in the Serengeti. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. (B). 262:221-228.

Mace, G.M. and Hudson, E.M. (1999) Attitudes towards sustainability and extinction. Conservation Biology. 13:242-247

Reynolds, J.R. and Mace, G.M. (1999) Risk assessments of threatened species. TREE 14: 215-217.

Carbone, C., Mace, G.M., Roberts, S.C. and Macdonald, D.W. (1999) Energetic constraints on the diet of terrestrial carnivores. Nature 402: 286-288.

Mace, G.M. and Balmford, A. (2000) Patterns and processes in contemporary mammalian extinction. .pp 27-52, in Priorities for the Conservation of Mammalian Biodiversity , ed. Entwhistle, A. and Dunstone, N, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.pp 27-52

Akcakaya, H. R., S. Ferson, M. A. Burgman, D. A. Keith, G. M. Mace, and C. Todd. ( 2000) Making consistent IUCN classifications under uncertainty. Conservation Biology . 14: 1001-1013

Purvis, A., Agapow, P.M., Gittleman, J.L & Mace, G.M. (2000) Non-random extinction and the loss of evolutionary history. Science. 288: 328-330

Crandall. K., Bindinda-Emonds, O.R.P., Mace, G.M. & Wayne, R.K. (2000) Considering evolutionary processes in conservation biology: an alternative to "Evolutionary Significant Units". TREE 15: 290-295

Mace, G.M. Balmford, A., et al .(2000)From hotspots to conservation consensus. Nature 405:393.

Purvis, A., Gittleman, J.L., Cowlishaw, G. &Mace, G.M. (2000) Predicting extinction risk in declining species. Proc. Roy. Soc . Lond. (B): 1456: 1947-1952.

Purvis, A. Jones, K.E and Mace, G.M. (2000) Extinction. BioEssays 22:1123-1133.

Coulson, T.N., Mace, G.M., Hudson , E. and Possingham, H. (2001) The use and abuse of popuation viability analysis. TREE 3:16:219-221.

Mace, G. M., Gittleman, J. L. & Purvis, A. (2003). Preserving the tree of life. Science 300: 1707-1709.