Professor Lee White Cbe Email & Phone Number

Gabon

Stirling, Scotland, GB

African Tropical Forest Ecology Group, School of Biological Sciences

Libreville, Estuaire, GA

After 20 years running the Wildlife Conservation Society Gabon Program, and almost 10 years as Executive Secretary of Gabon's National Parks Network I was made Minister of Forests, the Sea, and Environment, charged with Climate Change in June 2019. Subsequently Water, SDGs and Land-use Planning were added to my portfolio.

Libreville, Estuaire, GA

Managing a network of national parks covering 11% of the country. Up to the end of 2016 I had grown the parks agency from 100 to 650 employees and raised over $100 millions of external funding. ANPN’s responsibilities were extended to management of 9 RAMSAR sites, the Wonga Wongué Presidential Reserve and the Raponda Walker Arboretum, as well as 20 marine.

Libreville, Estuaire, GA

Appointed as senior scientist in Gabon’s UNFCCC climate change negotiating team, participating in all of the preparatory meetings after Bali and in the Copenhagen COP, where I assisted President Bongo Ondimba in the high level restricted negotiations that resulted in the Copenhagen Accord.

Bronx, New York, US

Director of WCS Gabon Program charged with establishing the WCS Gabon Program. Under my guidance Gabon program grew from a $75,000 / year research project to a $5 million / year conservation program, employing 200 people and active in 13 national parks.1992-1997 – Associate Conservation Scientist, Wildlife Conservation Society, responsible for a tropical.

Gland, Vaud, CH

Initiated and coordinated a project to re-evaluate all existing and proposed protected areas in Gabon with a view to creating a network of 10-15 National Parks (project run in collaboration with Dr. André Kamden Toham of WWF-CARPO). This project involved conducting surveys in upwards of 20 sites throughout the country, focusing on large mammals, birds.

Châtelaine, GE, CH

Ran a 8-week training session in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, northern Congo, for 21 trainees from six central African countries in wildlife survey and monitoring techniques, in collaboration with the MIKE program of CITES.

Brussels, BE

Worked as a consultant to the 'Programme de conservation et d'utilisation rationnelle des écosystèmes forestiers d’Afrique Centrale, Composante Gabon [Projet CCE FED DG VIII]) to produce a vegetation map of parts of the Lopé Reserve, to undertake a study of savanna colonisation and burning with a view to making management recommendations, and to train.

Edinburgh, GB

Employed by the University of Edinburgh as a part-time lecturer, teaching part of a fourth year under-graduate course in primate ecology. I also lectured to the M.Sc. program in resource management at Edinburgh

Washington, DC, US

I undertook large mammal and vegetation inventory work for World Wildlife Fund (WWF) - Gabon in the proposed Minkebe National Park, northeastern Gabon.

London, GB

I was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Studentship, a Research Fellow grant from Wildlife Conservation International (now The Wildlife Conservation Society) and several smaller grants, to study the effects of selective logging on plant and animal communities in the Lopé Reserve, Gabon. From January 1989 - July 1991 I gained extensive experience of.

Employed by the Nigerian Conservation Foundation, a Nigerian NGO, as a Project Manager to set up and run a conservation project in Okomu Forest Reserve, Bendel State, the location of Nigeria's first rain forest Wildlife Sanctuary. I was responsible for anti-poaching activities to protect a sanctuary covering 70 km2, undertaking research to produce a.

Research assistant and camp manager on the Tiwai Island Primate Research Project, conducting primate censuses and a research project on the endangered pygmy hippo.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Zoology/Animal Biology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Zoology/Animal Biology