Professor Bridget Emmett is Head of Soils and Land Use at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH) and Head of the UKCEH Wales Research Station in Bangor. She has over 30 years experience in environmental research and currently leads a large consortium of organisations to deliver integrated modelling work to support policy development, robustly review the evidence of Nature Based Solution success, and provide national scale monitoring to track policy outcomes.