Dr. Eric Dinerstein, Chair

Director, Biodiversity and Wildlife Solutions, RESOLVE
Former Vice President for Science, World Wildlife Fund

Dr. Eric Dinerstein is the founder and Director of the Biodiversity and Wildlife Solutions (BWS) at RESOLVE. The twin goals of BWS focus is saving endangered large mammals from extinction and saving tropical rainforests.
BWS brings new innovations in technology to help save endangered species and their habitats, promotes WildTech for global communications and is working to Integrate Biodiversity into Global Forest Watch with the World Resources Institute.

For much of the past 25 years Eric was Chief Scientist at the World Wildlife Fund. Beginning in 1975, he conducted studies of tigers and their prey and led conservation programs for large mammals, such as greater-one horned rhinoceros. Along with Dr. David Olson, he is a co-architect of the Global 200, Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World, and with Dr. Eric Wikramanayake, mapped tiger conservation landscapes, designed the Terai Arc Landscape in Nepal and India, and was a leader in the first Global Tiger Summit, staged in November 2010, to double the wild tiger population.

He is author of The Return of the Unicorns: the Natural History and Conservation of the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros (Columbia University Press); Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations and The Kingdom of Rarities (Island Press), and What Elephants Know, forthcoming in May 2016 (Disney-Hyperion).