Dr Alex Tasker is a dual-trained veterinarian and anthropologist focused on One Health at the security–policy interface. Alex is an Academic Director of the University of Bristol, leading the development of new policy-research-practice interfaces, and an Associate Professor in One Health at the University of Bristol. Alex advises UK and international actors on biosecurity, biothreats and emerging technologies, and leads a range of health and security projects, with a specialist interest in building cross-sector collaborative evidence ecosystems for fragile and conflict-affected settings. An ESRC Policy Fellow and Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Fellow, his work bridges research, strategy and operations to reduce biological risk and enable resilient systems.