Biljana Macura

Biljana Macura is a Senior Research Fellow and Team Lead for the Sanitation and Health Team within the Resources, Rights and Development Division at SEI Headquarters in Stockholm.

She produces rigorous syntheses of scientific evidence, including systematic reviews and maps, to inform decision-making in environment and development. Biljana is particularly interested in evidence-informed decision-making, knowledge co-production and stakeholder engagement, policy needs assessment and use of different forms of evidence to investigate complex environmental and development problems. She also works on the improvement and development of methodology for evidence synthesis and provides training in this field. Biljana is the Editor-in-Chief of Springer Nature journal – Environmental Evidence.

Biljana is an environmental social scientist with an interdisciplinary background. She holds a PhD in forest policy from the University of Padova, Italy and Bangor University, United Kingdom, and an MSc in Environmental Studies from ICTA, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain and Hamburg University of Technology, Germany. Biljana’s SEI publications are listed below, and external publications are on Google Scholar and ResearchGate.