Audrey Wagner

Audrey Constance Wagner is an expert on nature-based solutions and biodiversity & climate synergies and trade-offs, focusing on international policy and governance.
She is currently a PhD researcher (2025-2029) at Imperial College London in the Centre for Environmental Policy (CEP) and the Transdisciplinary Centre for Nature and People (TCNP) under the supervision of Prof Caroline Howe, researching governance across scales of nature-based solutions in Amazonian countries: policy implementation in the era of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. 

Audrey also acts as Coordinator of the Academia and Research (A&R) Organisations group engaging in negotiations under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) since 2024.
She also currently works part-time as a Climate Literacy Trainer with Sustainable Imperial, delivering interactive workshops to Imperial staff on the fundamentals of climate change. Audrey also serves as PhD student representative for the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial, acting as a liaison between students, faculty and department administration and organising activities such as seminars to foster a positive community culture in the department. 

Previously, from 2021 to 2025, Audrey worked full-time as Programme Coordinator and Researcher for Oxford University's Nature-based Solutions Initiative (NbSI) under Prof Nathalie Seddon, working on research and policy of NbS and climate & biodiversity synergies and trade-offs.  


Background
Audrey has been researching, working, and studying in the field of environment and sustainability for over decade. Her knowledge base is interdisciplinary and includes a background in environmental biology, plant ecology, sustainable agriculture, sustainability certification, net zero science and policy, environmental management, nature-based solutions, and global environmental governance. 

Audrey graduated from an MSc. in Environmental Change and Management at the University of Oxford (2021), finishing with awarded Distinction. Her Masters dissertation research focuses on indigenous sovereignty and payments for ecosystem services for reducing deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon.

She obtained her BSc. from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, with an Honours in Environment (BSc.), a specialization in Food Production and Environment and a minor in International Agriculture, while her undergraduate thesis research looked at how tree diversity in Panama affects carbon stocks and fluxes. 

Prior to moving to the UK, Audrey was the founder and co-founder of four local grassroots organizations in her hometown of Montreal, Canada: the Mac Regenerative Food Hub, the Macdonald Permaculture Showcase Garden, the McGill Permaculture Club, and Sprouting Minds: For the Food Revolution. 

She is fluent in English, French and Spanish, as well as understanding basic Portuguese, and has lived, worked, volunteered and travelled in 32 countries.