Annette Lanjouw 

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 justice. Annette is a primatologist and behavioural ecologist who studied and worked to conserve bonobos, chimpanzees and mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. 

Annette served as the regional director for Africa and Latin America at Fauna & Flora International, and as international programme officer for the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. From 1993 to 2005, Annette was director of the International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP), a partnership between the Worldwide Fund for Nature, African Wildlife Foundation and Fauna & Flora International, which has successfully worked to conserve and develop a supportive institutional and policy environment for integrated conservation in Central and East Africa. From 1990 to 1993, Annette was the programme coordinator for the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Protected Area Regional Conservation Strategy across Central Africa.