Michael (Mike) HOFFMANN

Mike Hoffmann, a South African national, is currently based at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) where he heads up the organization’s cross-cutting conservation programmes. He has worked in intergovernmental (IUCN), non-governmental (Conservation International, WCMC and ZSL) and academic sectors (the University of Pretoria’s Mammal Research Institute and Oxford University’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit) in South Africa, the US and the UK. He has been involved in helping launch or support several major conservation initiatives, including the IUCN Red List and IUCN Green Status of Species, Key Biodiversity Areas, the Alliance for Zero Extinction, EDGE, SMART, the biodiversity hotspots concept, the Universal Ranger Support Alliance and more. He is the co-editor of the 6-volume Mammals of Africa and holds one of the world’s most comprehensive private libraries on African mammals