Clunie Keenleyside specialises in EU and UK agricultural, biodiversity and rural development policy. Before joining IEEP she spent seventeen years focusing on the design, implementation and evaluation of agri-environment schemes under Pillar 2 of the CAP. Since then she has had extensive experience of capacity building in other Member States, and of policy analysis and development at EU-28 level, including numerous European Commission studies (covering a range of topics including Natura 2000 farming, agroforestry, land abandonment, HNV farmland and the CAP, agri-environmentschemes and soil protection). She is an experienced communicator and facilitator, used to working with many different audiences, and has a wide range of contacts in government departments, research institutions and NGOs. She holds a degree in agriculture from Cambridge University and an MSc in ecology from Aberdeen University.