 Introduction
Dr. Kent Redford
About Dr. Kent Redford
Kent H. Redford, PhD
Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society Institute
& Vice President, Conservation Strategies
Wildlife Conservation Society
Bronx, NY
Kent Redford is Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society Institute
and Vice President, Conservation Strategies at the Wildlife Conservation
Society in New York. He completed his Bachelors at the University
of California, Santa Cruz and his Doctorate at Harvard University.
His dissertation research on giant anteaters and termites was conducted
in the cerrado of central Brazil. After a post-doctoral fellowship
at the University of Florida he joined the faculty there with a
joint appointment in the Center for Latin American Studies and the
Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation. Working with colleagues
he established and helped run two interdisciplinary graduate training
programs in conservation and development focusing on the training
of students from tropical countries. From the University of Florida
he moved to the Nature Conservancy where he directed the large Parks
in Peril program and ran the conservation science department in
the Latin American Division. During his five years at TNC he also
helped develop guidelines for ecoregion-based conservation in both
the US and internationally. In 1997 he moved to the Wildlife Conservation
Society where he worked across the four international programs to
help analyze and share lessons learned in the diverse ecological
and political settings in which W.C.S. works. In 2002 he was appointed
as Director of the WCS Institute which has the mission of synthesizing
and disseminating lessons learned from the field and living collections,
strengthening existing conservation, and using WCS experience and
values to move the action agenda for conservation. Kent’s
expertise lies in conservation strategies, park-based conservation,
traditional resource use, tropical conservation, subsistence wildlife
use and South American mammals.
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