Alex currently works as a Red List Officer for BirdLife International (Cambridge, UK), the world’s oldest and largest global Partnership of civil society organisations for nature conservation. He is also a member of the IUCN SSC Asian Songbird Trade and Galliformes Specialist Groups. Alex maintains several research interests in South-East Asia and Australasia, with special foci on avian geographic variation, threatened species and their extinction risk, and poorly known species and regions.