Frankie Cho

Frankie is Research Lead in Ecological Economics in the Technical Design and Development Team at The Biodiversity Consultancy. He is responsible for developing evidence-based inputs for ecosystem services valuation and accounting, quantifying nature-related risks and opportunities, evaluating the effectiveness of biodiversity credit mechanisms, and assessing the evidence of different economic instruments designed to promote biodiversity.

He has more than six years of applied experience in academia and government, applying principles from ecological economics to help government agencies quantitatively model and manage nature-related risks to conservation and land management activities. In his PhD, he worked with large-scale, spatially-explicit numerical models of land-use change to design risk-sensitive spatial planning tools that help government agencies model and identify low-risk approaches to improving ecosystem services. These approaches ensure that biodiversity conservation remains effective under climate change.

Frankie holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Geography and a PhD in Environmental Economics. He has a strong technical expertise in spatial analysis, statistical programming, and applied data science. He is based in Brisbane, Australia, originally from Hong Kong and is a native speaker of Cantonese and Mandarin.