Dr. Joana Magos Brehm received her M.Sc. in Conservation and Utilisation of Plant Genetic Resources and Ph.D. in Biosciences from the University of Birmingham, UK. She currently works as a Research Fellow at the same university. She is also the project officer of the IUCN Crop Wild Relative Specialist Group and a member of the IUCN Plant Conservation Committee. Her research interests mainly include agrobiodiversity, in situ conservation, ex situ conservation, conservation planning, Red Listing, food security, crop wild relatives, and landraces.