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Lee Merriam Talbot, Ph.D.
PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW
Ecologist and Geographer; Specialist in international environmental
affairs, ecology, environmental policies and institutions, and natural
resource management, with over forty years of professional experience,
approximately half spent working on environmental issues in 126 countries
outside the United States.
CURRENT POSITIONS
- Professor of Environmental Science, International Affairs and
Public Policy, Department of Biology, George Mason University. 1994
- present.
- Senior Environmental Advisor and Consultant; President, Lee Talbot
Associates International. Clients include The World Bank Group, Regional
Development Banks (e.g. Asian and Inter-American Development Banks),
United Nations Development Programme, United Nations University,
and other United Nations Organizations , Governments, Universities,
the National Geographic Society and other Non-Governmental Organizations.
Geographical areas involved include Africa (East, Central, South
and West), Americas (North, including Hawaii, Central and South),
Asia (Central, East including China and Mongolia, South, Southeast,
and West), Australasia, Europe (West and East, including former USSR),
Indian Ocean, Pacific and Caribbean regions. 1983 - present.
PREVIOUS CONSULTING EXPERIENCE
- Numerous long and short term consultantships since l955 in ecology,
environment, environmental policy and institutions, conservation
of biological diversity, land use and natural resource management
(including fisheries, forestry, livestock, parks, range and wildlife),
environmental assessments, agriculture, and remote sensing. Clients
have included African, American, Asian, Australian and European governments
and governmental agencies, United Nations Organizations (e.g., WHO,
UNEP, UNESCO, UNSF), National Academy of Sciences, universities,
other governmental and non-governmental organizations and private
industry.
RECENT ADJUNCT ACADEMIC POSITIONS AND FELLOWSHIPS
- Affiliate Professor of Biology, George Mason University, Virginia,
1993 - 1994
- Visiting Fellow, World Resources Institute, Washington D.C., l984
- l989
- Fellow, Environment and Policy Institute, East-West Center, Hawaii,
l983 - l989
- Adjunct Professor of Biology, George Mason University, Virginia,
l988 - l990
- Regents' Lecturer, Biology and Environmental Science, Univ. of
California, Santa Barbara, l986.
- Adjunct Professor, Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities.
l985-1988
 Prior
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