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{{Short description|British conservationist (born 1968)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Stephanie Hilborne
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}}
| image = Stephanie Hilborne.JPG
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1968|03|03}}
| fields = Nature conservation
| workplaces = {{Unbulleted list | Women in Sport | [[The Wildlife Trusts]]}}
| alma_mater = [[Bristol University]], [[University College London]]
| awards = [[OBE]]
}}
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'''Stephanie Vera Hilborne''' (born March 3, 1968) became chief executive of [[The Wildlife Trusts]] as of 2004.<ref>{{cite book post-nominals|titlecountry=Who'sGBR|OBE}} Who(born and3 WhoMarch Was1968) Whois |publisher=Oxforda UniversityBritish Press|place=Oxford|chapter=Hilborne, Stephanie Vera |date=2019 |url=http://wwwscientist.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-45701/version/4}}</ref> In 2010 she received an [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] for her services to [[nature conservation]].<ref name="OBE">{{cite news |title=New Year honours list: OBEs |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/dec/31/new-years-honours-list-obes |accessdate=31 March 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=30 December 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331042527/https://greeneruk.org/about/contacts/stephanie-hilborne-obe|archive-date=2019-03-31}}</ref><ref name="GreenerUK">{{cite web |title=Stephanie Hilborne OBE |url=https://greeneruk.org/about/contacts/stephanie-hilborne-obe |website=GreenerUK |accessdate=31 March 2019}}</ref> She is the CEO of Women in Sport.
 
== Education ==
Hilborne has a first class degree in Biology (1990) and an honorary doctorate in science (2015) from [[Bristol University]].<ref name="Bristol">{{cite web |title=Stephanie Hilborne, OBE |url=http://www.bristol.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-degrees/2015.html/hilborne.html|date=21 July 2015|first= Jane |last= Memmott |website=University of Bristol |accessdate=31 March 2019}}</ref>
She earned a Masters in Biology<ref name="UCL2010"/>/Conservation<ref name="GreenerUK"/> from [[University College London]] in 1992.<ref name="UCL2010">{{cite web |title=New Year's Honours for UCL staff |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2010/jan/new-years-honours-ucl-staff?gridset=show |website=University College London |accessdate=31 March 2019|date=6 January 2010}}</ref>
 
Hilborne has a first class degree in Biology (1990) and an honorary doctorate in science (2015) from [[Bristol University]].<ref name="Bristol">{{cite web |title=Stephanie Hilborne, OBE |url=http://www.bristol.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-degrees/2015.html/hilborne.html|date=21 July 2015|first= Jane |last= Memmott |website=University of Bristol |accessdate=31 March 2019}}</ref>
==Career==
She earned a MastersMaster's in Biology<ref name="UCL2010" />/Conservation<ref name="GreenerUK" /> from [[University College London]] in 1992.<ref name="UCL2010">{{cite web |title=New Year's Honours for UCL staff |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2010/jan/new-years-honours-ucl-staff?gridset=show |website=University College London |accessdate=31 March 2019|date=6 January 2010}}</ref>
As of 2010, Hilborne joined the Board of Trustees of the UK Green Building Council.<ref>{{cite web |title=UK Green Building Council: New trustees |url=https://ihbconline.co.uk/newsachive/?p=1835 |website=IHBC NewsBlog Archive |accessdate=31 March 2019|date=2010}}</ref><ref name="Hudson">{{cite news |last1=Hudson |first1=Kath |title=Back to nature |url=http://www.spabusiness.com/detail.cfm?pagetype=featuresonline&featureid=32878&mag=Leisure%20Management&linktype=story&source=none&ref=n |accessdate=31 March 2019 |work=Leisure Management |issue=1 |date=2018}}</ref> She later became vice chair of the UK Green Building Council.<ref name="GreenerUK"/>
 
== Career ==
She joined the Wildlife and Countryside Link, a national coalition of environmental organizations, in 1998. In 2000 she joined the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, serving as its Chief Executive from 2000-2004.<ref name="GreenerUK"/>
In 2004, she became Chief Executive of The Wildlife Trust, a collective of the 47 local Wildlife Trusts. As a group, it manages 2,300 wildlife reserves, with over 2,000 staff, 35,000 volunteers and 800,000 members.<ref name="Bristol"/>
 
As of 2010, Hilborne joined the Boardboard of Trusteestrustees of the [[UK Green Building Council]].<ref>{{cite web |title=UK Green Building Council: New trustees |url=https://ihbconline.co.uk/newsachive/?p=1835 |website=IHBC NewsBlog Archive |accessdate=31 March 2019|date=2010}}</ref><ref name="Hudson">{{cite news |last1=Hudson |first1=Kath |title=Back to nature |url=http://www.spabusiness.com/detail.cfm?pagetype=featuresonline&featureid=32878&mag=Leisure%20Management&linktype=story&source=none&ref=n |accessdate=31 March 2019 |work=Leisure Management |issue=1 |date=2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331072502/http://www.spabusiness.com/detail.cfm?pagetype=featuresonline&featureid=32878&mag=Leisure%20Management&linktype=story&source=none&ref=n|archive-date=2019-03-31}}</ref> She later became vice chair of the UK Green Building Council.<ref name="GreenerUK" />
Hilborne has been successful in campaigning for the [[Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009|Marine and Coastal Access Act]] (2009); contributing to Sir [[John Lawton (biologist)|John Lawton]]'s review, which was published as ''Making Space for Nature'' (2010); and working on a White Paper on the Natural Environment (2011). The White Paper pledged that the Conservative Party would be “the first generation to leave the environment in a better state than it found it”.<ref name="GreenerUK"/><ref name="Lawton">{{cite book |last1=Lawton |first1=Sir John |title=Making Space for Nature Making Space for Nature: A review of England’s Wildlife Sites and Ecological Network |date=16 September 2010 |publisher=Submitted to the Secretary of State, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on 16 September 2010 |url=https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130402170324/http:/archive.defra.gov.uk/environment/biodiversity/documents/201009space-for-nature.pdf |accessdate=31 March 2019}}</ref><ref name="WhitePaper">{{cite web |title=Natural Environment White Paper discussion document: record response |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/natural-environment-white-paper-discussion-document-record-response |website=Gov.UK |accessdate=31 March 2019| date=10 December 2010|publisher= Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs }}</ref>
 
She joined the Wildlife and Countryside Link, a national coalition of environmental organizations, in 1998. In 2000 she joined the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, serving as its Chiefchief Executiveexecutive from 2000-2004.<ref name="GreenerUK" />
Hilbourne was one of the members of an independent panel on forestry which was formed in December 2010 and reported on 4 July 2012.<ref name="Liverpool">{{cite news |title=Bishop James to chair Forestry Panel Bishop |url=http://www.liverpool.anglican.org/Bishop-James-to-chair-Forestry-Panel |accessdate=31 March 2019 |work=The Diocese Of Liverpool}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=A new national plan to protect our forests |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/nov/12/national-plan-to-protect-forests |accessdate=31 March 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=12 Nov 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Independent Panel on Forestry |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/independent-panel-on-forestry |website=Gov.UK |accessdate=31 March 2019}}</ref> Hilborne served on the Smarter Environmental Regulation Review of the [[Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs]] in 2014-2015.<ref>{{cite book |title=Terms of Reference for Smarter Environmental Legislation:Phase 2 of the Smarter Environmental Regulation ReviewApril 2014 |date=2014 |publisher=Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/301854/pb14164-smarter-environmental-legislation-tor.pdf}}</ref>
In 2004, she became Chiefchief Executiveexecutive of The Wildlife Trust, a collective of the 47 local Wildlife Trusts. As a group in 2015, it manages 2,300 wildlife reserves, with over 2,000 staff, 35,000 volunteers and 800,000 members.<ref name="Bristol" />
 
Hilborne has been successful in campaigning for the [[Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009|Marine and Coastal Access Act]] (2009); contributing to Sir [[John Lawton (biologist)|John Lawton]]'s review, which was published as ''Making Space for Nature'' (2010); and working on a White Paper on the Natural Environment (2011). The White Paper pledged that the Conservative Party would be “the first generation to leave the environment in a better state than it found it”.<ref name="GreenerUK" /><ref name="Lawton">{{cite book |last1=Lawton |first1=Sir John |title=Making Space for Nature Making Space for Nature: A review of England’sEngland's Wildlife Sites and Ecological Network |date=16 September 2010 |publisher=Submitted to the Secretary of State, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on 16 September 2010 |url=https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130402170324/http:/archive.defra.gov.uk/environment/biodiversity/documents/201009space-for-nature.pdf |accessdate=31 March 2019}}</ref><ref name="WhitePaper">{{cite web |title=Natural Environment White Paper discussion document: record response |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/natural-environment-white-paper-discussion-document-record-response |website=Gov.UK |accessdate=31 March 2019| date=10 December 2010|publisher= Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs }}</ref>
 
HilbourneHilborne was one of the members of an independent panel on forestry which was formed in December 2010 and reported on 4 July 2012.<ref name="Liverpool">{{cite news |title=Bishop James to chair Forestry Panel Bishop |url=http://www.liverpool.anglican.org/Bishop-James-to-chair-Forestry-Panel |accessdate=31 March 2019 |work=The Diocese Of Liverpool}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=A new national plan to protect our forests |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/nov/12/national-plan-to-protect-forests |accessdate=31 March 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=12 Nov 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Independent Panel on Forestry |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/independent-panel-on-forestry |website=Gov.UK |accessdate=31 March 2019}}</ref> Hilborne served on the Smarter Environmental Regulation Review of the [[Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs]] in 2014-2015.<ref>{{cite book |title=Terms of Reference for Smarter Environmental Legislation:Phase 2 of the Smarter Environmental Regulation ReviewApril 2014 |date=2014 |publisher=Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/301854/pb14164-smarter-environmental-legislation-tor.pdf}}</ref>
 
She was chief executive of The Wildlife Trusts from 2004 to 2019. She became the CEO of Women in Sport in 2019. <ref>{{Cite web|title=Stephanie Hilborne named CEO of Women in Sport|url=http://www.leisureopportunities.co.uk/news/Stephanie-Hilborne-named-CEO-of-Women-in-Sport-/342187|last=Walker|first=Tom|date=13 Jun 2019|website=leisureopportunities.co.uk|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-05-02}}</ref>
 
==References==
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== External links ==
 
* {{twitter|stephhilborne}}
 
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