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Eleanor Milne has 26 years of experience working on various aspects of environmental management in the agricultural and land management sectors in developing countries. This has included being the Editor in Chief and Subject Editor (Climate Change) for the journal ‘Environmental Development’ and she remains a board member for the same journal. For the past 18 years her work has focused on developing and using tools to estimate the climate change mitigation potential of land management activities in developing countries which has involved work for a range of United Nations  organisations. She coordinated the Global Environment Facilities (GEF) GEFSOC project which developed a system to estimate changes in soil carbon stocks at national and sub-national scale. She also coordinated the modelling component of the GEFs Carbon Benefits Project which has developed online tools to estimate the GHG impacts of land management activities. She has an undergraduate degree in Environmental Biology from the University of Liverpool, UK, a Masters Degree in Crop Production and the Changing Environment from Essex University, UK and a PhD which considered ‘Soil conservation and maize productivity on sub-tropical red soils in Yunnan Province China’ from The University of Wolverhampton, UK. She has worked as a consultant, for Colorado State University, FAO, IFAD, USAID, CARE/The World Bank and UNEP. Eleanor is currently an Affiliate Scientist at Colorado State University and WOCAT (The University of Bern) and a Climate Change Specialist for the FAO.