Board Members

Our Board of Directors volunteer their time and expertise.

Martin Bauert
PhD
Head of Conservation
Zoo Zürich
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Greg Dye
MA
Executive Director
Duke Lemur Center
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SECRETARY
​Lisa Kelley
PhD
Executive Director
WildCare Institute at
Saint Louis Zoo
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Eric Krussman
BS
General Curator
San Francisco Zoo
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VICE CHAIR
​Pete Lowry
PhD
Director of the Africa & Madagascar Program
Missouri Botanical Garden
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Theo Pagel
Professor
Director / CEO
Kölner Zoo
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Hitoshi Suzuki
PhD
​​General Curator
Exhibits and Husbandry Department
Ueno Zoo
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CHAIR
​Tim L. Tetzlaff
BSc
​​Director of Conservation
Naples Zoo at Caribbean Gardens
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Eric Tsao
PhD
​​CEO
Conservation and Research Center at
Taipei Zoo
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TREASURER
​Daniel Warsaw
MBA
​​Chief Operations Officer
Wellington Zoo
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Charles Wheeler
MS
Project Manager
​Madagascar & the Mascarenes
Chester Zoo
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Executive Advisory Committee

Karen Freeman, MFG Executive Director  |  Jean Jacques Jaozandry, Director of MFG in Madagascar  |   ​Martin Bauert, MFG Board
Lisa Kelley, Secretary  |  Pete Lowry, Vice Chair  |  Ingrid Porton, Vice Chair Research and Conservation  | Claire Raisin, MFG Board
Tim Tetzlaff, Chair  |  Eric Tsao, MFG Board  |  Daniel Warsaw, Treasurer  

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MFG Advisors

Andrea Katz
MFG Founder
​and Technical Advisor
​Duke Lemur Center, Retired
Conservation, Program Development,
and Administration
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Charlie Welch
MFG Founder
​and Technical Advisor
​Duke Lemur Center
Conservation and Field Research
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Eric Miller
Senior Counsel, Zoo Advisors
​Director Emeritus,
Saint Louis Zoo's WildCare Institute
Past Chair
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Franco Andreone
​PhD and Curator
Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino​
Amphibians & Reptiles

Christof den Biggelaar PhD
Appalachian State University
Ecoagriculture
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Chris Birkinshaw
PhD
​Missouri Botanical Garden, Flora of Madagascar
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Angelica Crottini
PhD
Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, University of Porto 
​Amphibians & Reptiles
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Sharon Deem
DVM, PhD
Saint Louis Zoo
​ Conservation Medicine and One Health
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Rainer Dolch
PhD
Association Mitsinjo Madagascar Conservation

Tracy Dove
MA
Zoologica Conservation Education
Education
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Randy Junge
DVM
Columbus Zoo
Veterinary Medicine/Conservation Medicine
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Britt Keith
MS
Duke Lemur Center
Animal Welfare
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Paul Loiselle
PhD
Emeritus, New York Aquarium
Freshwater Fish
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Laura Perry
PhD
IUCN SSC
Conservation Behavior Change

Fidisoa Rasambainrivo DVM, MS
Mahaliana
Conservation Medicine

Vasit Sagan
PhD
Saint Louis University
GIS and Remote Sensing
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Jason Watters
PhD
University of California
​Animal Welfare
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Patricia Wright
PhD
Stony Brook University
​ Madagascar Conservation & Field Research
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Thomas Ziegler
PhD
Kölner Zoo
Freshwater Fish​