Julia Baker
Head of Nature Services
Department/institute
- Mott MacDonald
With over twenty years’ experience working in the environment sector, Julia has a wealth of expertise in biodiversity net gain, ecosystem services and ecological mitigation, in both design and construction and has led a wide variety of biodiversity net gain projects across transport, energy and residential sectors.
A leading voice in the sector, Julia was recently named in the ENDS Power List 2022 of the top 100 UK environmental professionals who have made the greatest impact in the past two years. She is the lead author of the UK’s Good Practice Principles for Biodiversity Net Gain and runs a range of professional training courses for the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management. She is also a visiting researcher at Oxford University, chair of the British Standards Group on Biodiversity and a director of the UK Business & Biodiversity Forum.