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Dr. Philip Riordan is a Senior Researcher at the University of Oxford's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, within the Department of Zoology. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Beijing Forestry University; Director of Wildlife Without Borders, small NGO focused on issues of wildlife in human dominated landscapes; Co-opted Member of the World Commission on Protected Areas; Member of the IUCN Cat Specials Group; and a Special International Observer to the Cat Specialist Group of China. In collaboration with Shi Kun at BFU, Philip has developed wild felid conservation in China since 2008, with large-scale programmes assessing snow leopard and tiger populations and conservation in China. These programmes operate in close collaboration with the Chinese Government State Forestry Administration, for whom Philip provides advice on endangered species conservation, protected areas management and wildlife management and the interactions with human activities. Philip Riordan has worked for Oxford University for 12 years, where he has run projects in UK on wildlife disease epidemiology (Eurasian badger and bovine tuberculosis), and conservation policy options and outcomes in agricultural landscapes within the Upper Thames river catchment. Prior to this, Philip worked in Africa, researching interspecific interactions within mammalian carnivore assemblages in contrasting ecosystems in Zambia and Kenya