Dame Georgina Mary Mace, DBE, FRS[2] (12 July 1953 – 19 September 2020)[1][3] was a British ecologist and conservation scientist.

and educated at the City of London School for Girls before studying at the University of Liverpool where she was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in 1976.

[citation needed] Her research interests mainly involved measuring the trends and consequences of biodiversity loss and ecosystem change.

[7] Many Regional Red List publications are now increasingly based on the same criteria, which account for climate change and other environmental factors in determining extinction threats.

"[7] In 2006, Mace became director of the Imperial College Natural Environment Research Council's Centre for Population Biology at Silwood Park.

She was also an Academic Editor of PLOS Biology, the open access online journal and supported open-access policy to scientific publications.

[23] In 2016 she was also awarded, jointly with Sandra Knapp, the Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society [24] She received a President's Medal from the British Ecological Society,[25] and the 2018 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category of Ecology and Conservation Biology, jointly with Gretchen Daily, for developing vital tools facilitating science-based policies "to combat species loss".