Silvio Marchini is a research associate at the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), University of Oxford, and University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and conservation fellow at Chester Zoo. He is a board member of the IUCN Task Force on Human-Wildlife Conflict and of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Conservation Planning Specialist Group. His current work focuses on ways to upscale the analysis and management of human-wildlife conflicts.