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Clunie Keenleyside

Senior Fellow, Land Use and Climate

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.