Christopher DUNN

Christopher is the Elizabeth N. Wilds Executive Director of Cornell Botanic Gardens of Cornell University and is Chair of the IUCN National Committee for the USA. He is a botanist and conservation ecologist with an interest in the relationships between people and place and human impacts on the landscape. More recently, he has been studying the intersection of biological and cultural conservation. He has served on various boards, including the American Public Gardens Association (for which he served as President) and presently serves as Vice Chair of Terralingua, an international nonprofit organization concerned about the future of the world's biological, cultural and linguistic diversity and sits on the board of the IUCN-US. Christopher is active in several international conservation organizations, including Botanic Gardens Conservation International and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and was instrumental in preparing the successful bid to host IUCN’s World Conservation Congress in Hawai´i, USA in 2016. Christopher holds faculty status at Cornell University and the University of Hawai'i.