Dr Richard JENKINS

Deputy Director, Global Species Programme, IUCN

Dr Richard Jenkins is the Deputy Director of IUCN's Global Species Programme and is based in Cambridge, UK. Before joining IUCN, Richard lived in Madagascar where his work concentrated on species conservation and he established a national NGO that supports communities to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity. For IUCN, his work focuses on the operation and governance of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and supporting the implementation of CITES.