ADVISORY COUNCIL

Honorary Chair: Takayoshi Kano, Ph.D.
Founding Director, Wamba Research Project & Luo Reserve (DRC)
Professor Emeritus, Primate Research Institute
Author, The Last Ape: Pygmy Chimpanzee Behavior and Ecology, 1992
Kyoto University , Japan

Philip Edward Leo Africa Bonn, M.A. (Cantab.), F.R.S.A.
Freeman of the City of London
Chevalier de l'Ordre de Saint Maurice et Lazare
Hon. Citizen: Comune di Montenero Sabino ( Italy)
GW Amb. & Special Envoy to Africa; World of Hope Int'l
(Special Consultative status to UN ECOSOC)
GW Amb. at-Large of CISRI-ISP (IGO)
former Chairman: Queen Mother Memorial Fund (BRCS)
London , U.K. & Italy

Douglas G. Cogan
Director of Climate Change Research
RiskMetrics Group
Author, The Greenhouse Gambit: Business and Investment Responses to Climate Change, 1992
Plainfield , New Hampshire, USA

Michael Fay, Ph.D.
Wildlife Conservation Society
Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic
Washington , DC, USA

Angus Gemmell
Barrister, Maurice Byers Chambers
Co-Founder, Bonobo Conservation Initiative-Australia
Sydney, Australia

Ursula Goodenough, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Washington University
Chair, Women in Cell Biology
Former President, American Society for Cell Biology
author, The Sacred Depths of Nature, 1998
St. Louis, MO, USA

Mbangi Mulavwa Habari
Chief Scientist, Centre de Recherche en Ecologie et Foresterie (CREF)
Ministry of Education and Scientific Research,
Mabali,, Democratic Republic of Congo

Mark Leighton, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Great Ape World Heritage Species Project
Former Director, Harvard School of Tropical Forestry
Cambridge, MA., USA

Honorable Tidal W. McCoy
Former Secretary of the U.S. Air Force
Founder of Washington Capital Partners
Great Falls , VA, USA

Alison Mize
Co-founder, Bonobo Conservation Initiative
Washington, DC, USA

Joanne Cipolla Moore
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Nicolas Mwanza Ndunda, Ph.D.
Secretary General, Centre de Recherché en Ecologie et Foresterie
DRC Ministry of Education and Scientific Research
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Wynne Paris
World Beat Musician
Washington , DC, USA

Amy Parish, Ph.D.
University of Southern California
Department of Anthropology and Gender Studies
Board of Directors, Arusha Project
Los Angeles , CA, USA

Erik R. Patel
Cornell University
Department of Psychology, Biological Psychology
Ithaca , NY, USA

Dick Rice, Ph.D.
Chief Economist
Conservation International
Arlington , VA, USA

Tony Rose, Ph.D.
Founding Director, Biosynergy Institute and The Bushmeat Project
Los Angeles , CA, USA

Duane Rumbaugh, Ph.D.
Great Ape Trust
Co-founder, Georgia State University Language Research Center
Des Moines, IA, USA

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Ph.D.
Great Ape Trust
Author, Apes, Language and the Human Mind, 2001 & Kanzi's Primal Language: The Cultural Initiation of Primates into Language, 2006
Des Moines, IA, USA

John Scherlis
Conservation Biologist
Washington, DC, USA

Ingrid Schulze, Ph.D.
Director, Falls Church-Kokolopori Sister City Partnership
Falls Church , VA, USA

Wayne Skipper
Founder, ConcentricSky - Web Development and Consulting
Eugene , Oregon, USA

Andy Sparkes, CMG, MCIPD
Her Majesty's UK Ambassador to Kosovo
Former HM UK Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Congo
Former Deputy UK High Commissioner to South Africa
Former Deputy UK Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia. 
Pristina, Kosovo

Gabriel Thoumi, MBA/MS
Forestry Director
MGM International
Author, Emeralds on the Equator: An Avoided Deforestation Carbon Markets Strategy Manual, 2009
Miami , FL, USA

Theodore Trefon, Ph.D.
Director, Contemporary History
Tervuren Museum
Author, Reinventing Order in the Congo: How People Respond to State Failure in Kinshasa, 2005
Brussels , Belgium

Pierre Kakule Vwirasihikya
DRC Program Co-Director
The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund Internationnal
President, Tayna Center for Conservation Biology
Former International Primatological Society V.P for Conservation
2005 Conde Nast Environmental Award
Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo

John Waugh
Senior Fellow, IUCN/US
Specialist in conservation strategies and planning, with emphasis on protected areas
Washington , DC, USA

Richard Wrangham, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology
Former Chair of Biological Anthropology
Harvard University
Trustee, Jane Goodall Institute
MacArthur Foundation Fellow
Author, Demonic Males, 2004
Cambridge , MA, USA