Carlos Galindo-Leal, M.Sc., Ph.D., is the director of
World Wildlife Fund’s Forest Program for Mexico (Programa Bosques Mexicanos) and former senior director of
Conservation International’s Center for Applied Biodiversity Science
“State of the Hotspots Program” for areas with high concentrations of endemic species undergoing exceptional loss of habitat worldwide.
Carlos has also served as director of the Tropical Research Program, Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford
University. He holds a BSc from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico, and MSc and PhD in Zoology from the
University of British Columbia, Canada. He organizes and teaches field courses on biodiversity management; past projects include Ecuador, Peru, Cuba,
Colombia, Chile, Nicaragua and Panama. He collaborates on training efforts in Quintana Roo and Chiapas, Mexico;
Laguna del Tigre and Tikal, Guatemala; and the United States. Carlos is author of DE DOS MUNDOS: Sapos,
ranas y salamandras en la Península de Yucatán, México / OF TWO WORLDS: Frogs, Toads and Salamanders
of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula (PANGAEA 2003) and co-author of
El venado de la Sierra Madre Occidental: ecologia, manejo y conservación (EDICUSA y CONABIO, 1998).
Born and raised in Mexico City, he now splits his time between Oaxaca and Mexico City.
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