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Dr. Diana Bell (UK)Diana is Director of the MSc in Applied Ecology & Conservation at the University of East Anglia where she is based in the Centre for Ecology, Evolution & Conservation. She also supervises the Diploma in Conservation and Project Administration, being run in conjunction with the WLT. Diana is a conservation biologist who is particularly well known as an expert on rabbits and other lagomorphs, and more recently for her work on the role of wildlife diseases in the decline of endangered birds and mammals. 
Kevin Cox (UK)Magazine publisher who founded Origin Publishing in 1997. The company was bought by BBC Magazines in 2004 and Kevin took over responsibility for a number of BBC titles, including BBC Wildlife. He is now non-executive Chairman of Origin Publishing as well as Chairman of World Land Trust Trading Ltd. He lives on Dartmoor, manages an 80-acre wood and is putting up bird boxes for pied flycatchers. 
Rohini Finch (UK)Rohini has an Engineering background and also an MBA from the London Business School. Much of her career was spent as an Oil Trader in the City. She now spends her time on Charity work and is a trustee with the Generations charitable trust, which has funded land purchase as part of the GUYRA Paraguay project. 
Merloyd Ludington (USA)Merloyd is an editor and publisher whose imprint, Merloyd Lawrence Books, co-publishes books on nature/environment, psychology, and biography with the Perseus Book Group. These include You Can't Eat GNP: Economics as if Ecology Mattered by Eric Davidson, and works by the Swedish photographer/scientist Lennart Nilsson. She serves on several boards of conservation organizations including the Woods Hole Research Center, Northeast Wilderness Trust, and Island Press. 
Alan Martin (UK)Alan trained as an accountant, but now spends much of his time
supporting various conservation organisations as well as running
a small business manufacturing bird rings and acting as a non-executive
Director of NHBS Ltd. He is currently a Council member of the
RSPB and Wetlands International, and is the ex-Chairman of the
British Trust for Ornithology. Alan is also the Secretary of the
Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest Trust, and acts as the main coordinator
of the REGUA project. 
Iain Orr (UK)After a career in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), including Consulates in Ghana and China, Iain was Head of Biodiversity until retirement and now advises the Trust on international affairs.
Jonathan Self (UK)Jonathan Self is an author and journalist. He writes on a wide range of subjects including farming and the environment for, amongst other publications, Country Life and the Times. His early career was spent in advertising and he uses this experience to do pro-bono fundraising and pr work for various non-profit organisations. 
Elaine Shaughnessy (UK)Elaine is Head of Development for the Linnean Society of London. The Society’s vision is to inspire active appreciation, study and conservation of all aspects of biodiversity. After graduating in Ecology, Elaine worked for Editions Alecto Ltd on a number of prestigious projects in collaboration with the Natural History Museum, the American Museum of Natural History and the Public Record Office. More recently, Elaine was Head of Publications for The World Conservation Union (IUCN). 
Byron Swift (USA)Directs World Land Trust – US, based in Washington, DC, and has dedicated much of his career over 20+ years to help establish and support private reserves in Latin America. Internationally, he has worked in over 15 countries on environmental and natural resources policy, and has published widely on issues involving biodiversity and natural resources management, climate change and industrial pollution. Formerly director of the Energy and Innovation Center at the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C., Byron focused on improving environmental law, policy and management, directed the United States office of IUCN and served in the legal office for parks and wildlife of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Sue Wells (UK)Sue Wells started her conservation career working with TRAFFIC International, at a time when John Burton was its Chairman, and her work on the international trade in corals, sea shells and marine turtles was the beginning of a life long interest. She went from TRAFFIC to IUCN where she worked on the Invertebrate Red Data Book, followed by numerous publications on coral reefs of the world, a subject on which she is now one of the world's acknowledged experts. Sue has visited many of the world's coral reefs, and advised the World Land Trust on numerous projects, including setting up the Philippine Reef and Rainforest Project. She now works as a consultant, specialising in marine conservation. Nancy Weiss (USA)John Fuller (USA)See also: |
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