Julia Baker

Technical Director Nature Services, Mott MacDonald

Julia is the Nature Services at Mott MacDonald, and is the lead author of the UK’s Good Practice Principles for Biodiversity Net Gain, and has designed and delivered BNG for several infrastructure projects.

Julia developed CIEEM’s professional training on the statutory Biodiversity Metric and chaired the first British Standard on BNG. Julia is a Visiting Researcher at Oxford University, was CIEEM’s Member of the Year in 2023, was named on the ENDs Power List in 2022, 2023 and 2024, and in 2024 won the BCIA’s Nature and People Positive Champion award.