Victoria is a natural resource management and sustainable development specialist with 10 years’
experience working in the conservation and mining, hydropower and oil and gas sectors in developing countries. She is an interdisciplinary scientist with extensive field experience in sub-Saharan Africa. Her expertise lies in Environmental and Social Impact Assessments, Social Impact Assessments (including gender-related impacts and impacts to vulnerable groups), impacts to cultural heritage, biodiversity offsetting, social closure planning, developing social safeguard tools and guidance (including stakeholder engagement plans, grievance mechanisms and environmental and social management plans), stakeholder engagement (with public and private sectors, civil society, local communities and indigenous people), training, capacity building and field research.

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Qualifications

• Registered Professional Natural Scientist with the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions

• DPhil Balancing People’s Uses of Nature with Biodiversity No Net Loss

• MSc Integrative Bioscience