Dr. Trang Nguyen is a Vietnamese conservation scientist, environmental advocate, and Founder and Executive Director of WildAct Vietnam, one of the country’s leading biodiversity conservation organisations.Trang holds a PhD in Biodiversity Management from the University of Kent (UK) and 2 Master degrees at Oxford Brooks University and University of Cambridge. She has conducted conservation research…
Alberto Campos is a conservation biologist who co-founded the NGO Aquasis while still an undergrad student, with the mission to prevent extinctions in Brazil. For 20 years, he acted as the NGO’s principal Director, creating long-term conservation projects for some of the most globally endangered birds and marine mammals. He has received three Conservation Leadership Awards and the prestigious…
Hugh Possingham is an award-winning conservation scientist. He has published over 700 refereed research papers in the fields of applied ecology, population dynamics and conservation biology. His diverse career brought him to work as an academic in various prestigious institutions such as Stanford University, Oxford University, Imperial College and The University of Queensland, where he supervised over 90 PhD students. In…
Simon Stuart is serving his second four-year term as chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission. In 2004 he completed the Global Amphibian Assessment, which put the global phenomenon of amphibian declines and extinctions on the map. Simon’s involvement with Future For Nature stems from his commitment to raising up the next generation of conservation leaders. Prior…
Vivek Menon is an award-winning wildlife conservationist, environmental commentator, author and photographer with a passion for elephants. He is the founder and executive director of the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), the regional director and adviser to the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), a member of the Species Survival Commission of the IUCN, an adviser to…
Annette Lanjouw is the Chief Executive Officer of the Arcus Foundation. The foundation has a dual mission of supporting social justice for LGBTQ people around the world, and species conservation for great apes and gibbons. The Arcus Foundation is the largest private funder of ape conservation and range-state ape sanctuaries, and a significant funder of LGBTQ social…
Masha established the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s office in the Russian Federation in 1994, then initiated a campaign which led to a ban on the winter den hunt of hibernating bears. She helped expand the Orphan Bear Cub Rehabilitation Centre, which has rescued, rehabilitated and released more than 170 orphan bear cubs back to the wild. Masha has also…
PatrÃcia Medici was one of the first winners of the Future For Nature Award in 2008. She won the Award for her outstanding conservation work on tapirs in Brazil. This enabled her to take a critical step towards establishing the Lowland Tapir Conservation Initiative. Since May 2013 she is part of the FFN committee. For the past 20 years,…
Saba Douglas-Hamilton is an award-winning wildlife filmmaker, TV host, and conservationist. As Chair of Future For Nature’s International Selection Committee, she believes passionately in promoting young conservation leaders and securing a future for the wild world. Her life in Africa, and her work as a wildlife filmmaker, has led her to some of the remoter parts of…
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