Piet THERON

Piet Theron (B Landscape Architecture, MPhil Environmental Science) is a Landscape Architect working in the environmental planning and management field. He has more than 28 years’ experience working on a wide range of natural resource management and social development projects in southern Africa, currently working for Conservation International as the Senior Director for Conservation Strategy and Development - Southern Africa. His key skills and expertise are focused on planning, managing, and implementing large, landscape-level and complex multi-national, multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder, integrated conservation and rural development projects. Piet also has for the past 19 years been involved in the implementation of the Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) Transfrontier Conservation Areas Programme, including completing his term as the International Coordinator for the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park and Conservation Area (GLTFCA) on 31 August 2021.