Cyril KORMOS

Cyril is Founder and Executive Director of Wild Heritage, a project of the Earth Island Institute. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley in 2015-2016, a Lui-Walton Innovator’s Fellow at Conservation International from 2016-2018 and became a National Geographic Explorer in 2018. Cyril also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of Wild Europe and on the Steering Committee for the Amazonia for Life: Let's Protect 80x2025 initiative. Cyril has edited several books, including A Handbook on International Wilderness Law and Policy (Fulcrum Publishing) and four books in the CEMEX Nature Series. He has also published extensively in scientific and policy journals. Cyril holds a B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.Sc. in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics and a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School. Cyril was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management in 2015-2016.