Dr Isabella Clegg is an animal welfare scientist, specialising in marine mammal welfare in captivity. She has degrees in Animal Behaviour and Welfare, Marine Mammal Science, and her PhD represented a world first and was on developing welfare parameters for bottlenose dolphins. Following her PhD, she founded Animal Welfare Expertise (AWE), an animal welfare consultancy that pioneers an animal-based, scientific approach to conducting independent welfare assessments of captive animals (e.g. the C-Well Assessment for dolphins).