Duncan Lang

Duncan is a Senior Environment Specialist at ADB in the Environment Group of CCRE, CCSD where he provides advisory and compliance support to operational departments as well as working on thought leadership work within the environment sector. His current work involves development of ADB’s long-term strategy to further mainstream biodiversity at the bank amongst other things. With an academic background in ecology Duncan started off his career as a researcher studying bats in Thailand, before in 2005 embarking on his professional career in the UK as an ornithologist in the burgeoning wind industry. From here his career moved to focus on wetland bird survey and assessment as well as general ecology before broadening to wider environmental issues. From starting off his career in the UK he has gained a wide variety of experience across a range of sectors and has worked in multiple countries across Asia and Europe including Georgia, Armenia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, and Nepal amongst others.​

Duncan is a keen birder and volunteered as a Wetland Birds Surveyor (WeBS) in the UK for six years, helping to provide wetland bird count data for a sector within the Firth of Forth Estuary SPA Natura Site in Scotland as part of the national recording system. He is also a member of both the Scottish and Oriental Bird Clubs.