Tulika Gupta, a lawyer at DESNZ interviews Professor Sallie Bailey, Chief Scientist at Natural England on the importance of evidence based decisions while reflecting on her inspiring and empowering journey to bring science, evidence and analysis at the heart of policy making.
Sallie has over 30 years’ experience of working in the areas of environment, natural resources and agriculture, both in the UK and internationally. She shares her journey in the field of science, the evolution of evidence, decision-making in evidence based policy, the challenges we face today in facilitating and preventing use of scientific evidence, building trust between scientists and policy makers and examples of good and bad policy making.
Natural England is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by DEFRA. They are the UK government’s adviser for the natural environment in England and help to protect and restore our natural world.
