Russel Mittermeier
President
Conservation International
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Russell A. Mittermeier is President of Conservation International since 1989. Trained as a primatologist and herpetologist, he has traveled widely in more than 120 countries, and has conducted field work in more than 20 – with much of his field work having focused on Amazonia (particularly Brazil and Suriname), the Atlantic forest region of Brazil, and Madagascar. Since 1977, Mittermeier has served as chairman of the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group. He has been a Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook since 1978, received an Honorary Doctorate there in 2007, and has been President of the Margot Marsh Biodiversity Foundation since 1996. Since 2001, he has served as Special Envoy for Great Apes with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and was elected in 2004 as an IUCN Regional Councilor for North America and the Caribbean.
Among the many honors he has received are the San Diego Zoological Society’s Gold Medal (1988), the Order of the Golden Ark of The Netherlands (1995), the Cincinnati Zoo Wildlife Conservation Award (1997), the Brazilian Muriqui ABD Prize (1997), Grand Sash and Order of the Yellow Star, Republic of Suriname (1998), the Order of the Southern Cross of the Brazilian Government (1998), the Aldo Leopold Award from the American Society of Mammalogists (2004), Sigma Xi’s John P. McGovern Science and Society Award (2007), the Sir Peter Scott Award of IUCN’s Species Survival Commission (2008) and the Association of Tropical Biology’s Specialist Recognition Award for Conservation (2008).
He graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth in 1971 and went on to Harvard University for a doctorate in biological anthropology (1977). By the time he graduated from Harvard, Dr. Mittermeier had published nearly 50 papers. His prolific output now encompasses more than 550 scientific and popular articles and 15 books, including the trilogy Megadiversity, Hotspots and Wilderness, and, most recently, Wildlife Spectacles, Hotspots Revisited, Transboundary Conservation, Lemurs of Madagascar, and Pantanal: South America’s Wetland Jewel, and has just completed a book on climate change entitled A Climate for Life.
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