A tropical forest conservation biologist with experience in managing conservation programmes across the African continent, particularly focusing on the use of research to provide answers to challenges faced by protected area managers. I have been involved in many training programmes in Africa and collaborate well with nationals in each country where he has worked. I have led biological surveys throughout the Albertine Rift region and completed censuses of chimpanzees and other primates, birds and plants in Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, leading to conservation action plans for several of the threatened species. Extensive experience of projects in Tropical moist forest and afromontane ecosystems in Africa. Areas of expertise include: combining research with ecosystem management, Strategic planning, establishing monitoring programs and developing national monitoring plans, undertaking biological surveys, prioritising protected areas for conservation, reduced impact logging practices, training african rangers and graduate students in research/inventory methods, establishing community ecotourism projects, conservation project management, socioeconomic surveys for conservation.