Daan Vreugdenhil
Director
World Institute for Conservation and Environment
The Netherlands
Biography
Daan Vreugdenhil is currently the Director of the World Institute for Conservation and Environment, WICE. He has worked for the Dutch Government, the United Nations, the World Bank and the Interamerican Development Bank in the fields of biodiversity conservation, water management, environmental impact assessment, national parks planning, biodiversity monitoring and GIS-ecosystems mapping. His career of 4 decades took him to 80+ countries on 5 continents. He has developed a methodology through which ecosystems can be concisely defined and mapped. He is also a Member of the IUCN World Protected Areas Commission.
Research Interest
Biodiversity Conservation and Environmental Science