E.J. Milner-Gulland is Professor of Conservation Science at Imperial College London, and the Chair of the Saiga Conservation Alliance. She currently holds a Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award and won the ZSL's Marsh Award for outstanding contributions to conservation science in 2001. She is a member of the IUCN's Antelope Specialist Group, the Sustainable Use Specialist Group, and the Board of Trustees of Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust. She is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Institute of Zoology and Editor of the Journal of Applied Ecology, Editoral Board member of Conservation Biology and Senior Editor of Oryx.

Carl earned his PhD with a study of the Pink Pigeon of Mauritius where he saw its recovery from a remnant population of ten to 390 in 2007.  Of the bird recovery programmes he has overseen, five began with populations of under twenty, the best known being the Mauritius Kestrel which began with four individuals and today numbers between 500 and 800.  Carl is an International Conservation Fellow of  Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and Scientific Director of the The Mauritian Wildlife Foundation.  He has supervised 19 PhDs and many more wildlife MSc’s and Diplomas, holds several honorary degrees, the Ridder of the Golden Ark and the MBE.