Dr. Lucy King was brought up in Somalia, Lesotho and Kenya. She has been researching the use of honey bees as a natural deterrent for crop-raiding elephants since 2006, and has published her findings in numerous scientific journals. Her DPhil doctoral thesis, through Oxford University and in partnership with Save the Elephants and Disney's Animal Kingdom, was awarded the UNEP/CMS Thesis Award 2011 from the United Nations Environment Program’s Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species. She won The Future for Nature Award and The St Andrews Prize for the Environment in 2013. She is a Research Associate with Oxford University's Department of Biology, a member of IUCN's African Elephant Specialist Group, and her TED talk was listed in the top ten talks of 2020. She is now the Coexistence Director for Save the Elephants and The Elephant Crisis Fund, and has launched a new open-source Human-Elephant Coexistence Toolbox manual comprised of 200 pages of methods and tools to help rural African communities to live more successfully with elephants.

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