Frank Duffau
Director of Global Operations, Wildlife Works Carbon LLC
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- United States of America
My background is mainly in species conservation, education and capacity exchange. I researched mother-young interactions in gorillas and chimpanzees, in captivity and the wild. After that, I worked for three years in Indonesia, where I developed and implemented youth ambassador and community engagement programmes on local and regional scales. I co-founded WildHub, a community of nature conservation professionals, in 2020 and work as their Community Lead. I am furthermore on the Advisory Board of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) at the University of Kent where I obtained my PhD on capacity development for conservation in 2022.
I'm a primatologist and nonprofit leader with 15+ years experience in international wildlife conservation, mainly in Africa but most recently in Costa Rica. My superpower is building up grassroots efforts in order to effect positive change that benefits both endangered species and people. I'm passionate about working across cultures and empowering people of all ages to act for conservation. I was the first Executive Director for the Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education (GRACE) Center, an award-winning organization conserving Critically Endangered Grauer's gorillas in Democratic Republic of Congo. I have conducted field research on wild chimpanzees in Uganda and orangutans in Borneo and have a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Harvard University. I currently live in Maine, USA, where I enjoy birding and hiking with my family.