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Estudió Botánica en la [[Universidad de Liverpool]].
Llegó a [[Canarias]] a principios de los [[1970s]] para hacerse cargo de la dirección del [[Jardín Botánico Viera y Clavijo]].• DAVID BRAMWELL MBE, BSc., MSc, PhD, FLS, FRSA
• Scientific CV.
• Recognitions
• IUCN: The World Conservation Union Sir Peter Scott Merit Award for “scientific contribution to the conservation of plants” awarded at the 1984 IUCN General Assembly. (First botanist ever to receive this award).
• Recipient in 1999 of the Gobierno de Canarias Cesar Manrique Prize for the Environment for outstanding service to the conservation of the environment in the Canary Islands.
• Designated a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1990 for “outstanding services to the community abroad. Received the distinction personally from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in February 1991.
• Elected Fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1971 (FLS)
• BRIT International Award for Excellence in Conservation 2003
o Botanical Research Institute of Texas
• Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, 2009 (FRSA)
• Membership of Boards, Committees etc.
• 2001- To present: Vice president of the International Association of Botanical Gardens (IABG)
• 1987- To present: Founder Trustee and member of the Board of Botanical Gardens Conservation International (BGCI).
• 1988: Founder member and former vice-president of the Spanish/Portuguese Association of Botanical Gardens.
• 1990: Member of the Scientific Evaluation Visiting Group of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.
• 1993-2006: Member of the IUCN Plants Conservation Committee
• 1994- present: Founder member of the European Union Botanical Gardens Consortium and member of the steering committee.
• 2000-present: Member of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity inter-sessional consultation group on the Global Strategy for Plants Conservation and considered by PLANT TALK magazine to be the “principal architect of the global strategy”. Was one of the four original promoters of the working group responsible for drawing up the GRAN CANARIA DECLARATION which eventually led to the formal approval of the Global Strategy by the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the CBD in The Hague in April 2002. Was chairman of the first meeting of the group in Las Palmas in April 2000 and joint organizer of the crucial pre-COP meeting in February of 2002 also held in Las Palmas. This meeting drew up the final draft of the Strategy to be approved at the COP.
• 1980-1995 Chairman of the IUCN Island Plants Specialist Group.
• Education
• Old Hall Grammar School, Maghull, nr. Liverpool, then the University of Liverpool (BSc. (Hons. Botany), MSc. In Plant Taxonomy), Universidad de Sevilla Spain, for post-graduate studies and, finally, University of Reading (PhD in Plant Sciences in 1971).
• Posts held
• In 1971 was appointed Curator of the Herbarium of the University of Reading
• In 1974 became Director of the Jardín Botánico Canario “Viera y Clavijo” at the age of 31.
• In 1978 was invited to take up the Chair of Botany at the National University of Ireland (University College, Cork) but did not occupy the Chair and renounced in 1979 to stay at the Gran Canaria Botanical Garden.
• 1984-86 was director of the team of biologists, architects and lawyers who prepared the first Plan Especial de Protección de los Espacios Naturales de Gran Canaria, the basis for current environmental protection laws and nature reserves.
• In 1991 was Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Reading.
• 1974-present - Has been director of numerous research projects, post-graduate students etc. (currently 10) and external examiner for several Spanish and other European Universities including, most recently the University of Dublin (Trinity College)
• Current research interests include in vitro cultivation of endangered species, germplasm storage at low temperature, seed dormancy in seed-banks, monitoring and mapping of wild populations of threatened species, preparation of a Manual Flora of the Canary Islands, mapping species decline world-wide, molecular studies of genetic diversity in small populations etc. Effects of climate change on island plants.
• Publications.
• !0 books, over 120 scientific papers and publications
• Referee for various international scientific journals
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