title: Teresa Dent
text: # Teresa Dent
  
  Teresa Ogilvy Dent CBE (born 1959) is the CEO of Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, a British charitable organisation promoting game and wildlife management as an essential part of nature conservation, since 2001.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Teresa Dent attended the University of Reading, graduating with a degree in agriculture.
  
  She joined Strutt & Parker as a farming and business management consultant and was a partner at the firm for 13 years. Her next position was with the Game Conservancy Trust (renamed Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust in 2007). She was named CEO of the Trust in 2001. She resides in Salisbury, Wiltshire.
  
  ## Memberships and affiliations
  
  In 2014 Dent was named to the board of Natural England. She was previously Chairman of the Marlborough Downs Nature Improvement Partnership. She is a board member of the Langholm Moor Demonstration Project.
  
  She is a Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Society of England.
  
  ## Awards and honors
  
  In June 2015 Dent was named a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) for "services to wildlife conservation" as part of the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honors.
  
  