Dr Johannes REFISCH

GRASP Coordinator, UNEP

Johannes leads the secretariat for the Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP), a unique alliance of member nations, research institutions, conservation organizations, United Nations agencies that is based at UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) headquarters in Nairobi. Johannes has a Diploma degree in animal ecology and has held scientific positions in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. He was co-director of the Tai Monkey Project in Cote d’Ivoire. Johannes relocated to East Africa in 2005, and worked as a programme manager for the International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP), then joined GRASP in 2006. He has a wideexperience in natural resource management and assisted  GIZ (German International Cooperation), IGCP, WWF and UNEP in designing, supervising and implementing NRMprojects. Johannes is  a Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions at the University of Queensland, Australia.