Resilient Landscapes and Seas Symposium 2026: Keynote Speaker Hannah Rudman

 
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Dr Hannah Rudman

James Hutton Institute & The Scottish Forum on Natural Capital 

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Dr Hannah Rudman is Co-Chair of the Scottish Forum on Natural Capital. She is also Senior Research Fellow at the James Hutton Institute, directing applied research in nature tech and digital measurement, reporting and verification and on how natural capital markets develop. She is Development and Policy Director at Highlands Rewilding, a mass-ownership company enabling nature recovery and community prosperity through rewilding. Previously Hannah founded and developed two environmental tech start-ups, and designed multi-national digital transformation programmes, eventually selling her frameworks to Leidos, a global technology services company. She is elected Fellow of the British Computer Society.