Marc Hockings
Marc Hockings is Emeritus Professor in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Queensland and Vice-Chair (Science) with the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas. He originally trained as an ecologist and spent 16 years working for the Queensland National Parks and Wildlife Service where he managed a team of 23 researchers and management planners. He joined the University of Queensland in 1992. From 2002 until his retirement from the University in 2016, he led the university’s environmental management programme and was Deputy Head of the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management during his final years at the University. He supervised 23 PhD students and numerous Honours and Masters students at the university. He was Principal Investigator on research grants totalling more than A$6million. He has published 95 peer-reviewed journal papers, 14 book chapters, 3 monographs and more than 50 reports and conference papers. His h-index is 40 with more than 11500 citations of his publications.
Marc is a long-term member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) through its World Commission on Protected Areas where he leads the global program on Science and Management of Protected Areas and is a member of the Commission’s Executive Committee. He is also a member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission and the Commission on Ecosystem Management. Marc was the principal author of the IUCN’s best practice guidelines on evaluation of management effectiveness in protected areas. He is the WCPA lead in the development of an IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas in collaboration with staff at IUCN. He is a Fellow at the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge, UK. Marc is Managing Editor of the IUCN journal PARKS. In 2008, he received the Kenton R. Miller Award for Innovation in Protected Area Sustainability for his work on management effectiveness.
Professor Hockings has chaired international reviews of protected area management systems in South Korea, Columbia, Thailand and Australia.
