Rosemary S. Hails MBE FRSB FRES is a British population ecologist and entomologist and the current Director of Science and Nature at the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty.
In 2000, she was made a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to environmental research.
As part of this team, she chairs a subgroup which is currently advising the development of the legally binding targets for biodiversity, under the 25 year Environment Plan.
She is also a trustee and Member of Council for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and the John Innes Foundation.
Hails' past roles include; at Defra - Chair of the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment, Membership of the Natural Capital Committee (NCC), the Bovine tuberculosis eradication advisory group (TBEAG); the Expert Advisory Panel for the Climate Change Risk Assessment Working Group; Member of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Science Board, and is a former Vice Chair of the British Ecological Society, chairing the Grants Committee.