IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group
1 January 2024

Chair -  Russell A. Mittermeier, Chief Conservation Officer, Re:wild, Austin, Texas USA, email: rmittermeier@rewild.org

Deputy Chairs

Anthony B. Rylands, Primate Conservatoin Director, Re:wild, Austin, Texas, USA, email: arylands@rewild.org

Christoph Schwitzer, Director, Dublin Zoo, Dublin, Ireland, email: christoph.schwitzer@dublinzoo.ie

Kim E. Reuter, Lemur Love, San Diego, CA, USA, email: kimleanorreuter@gmail.com

Leandro Jerusalinsky, Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação de Primatas Brasileiros, Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), João Pessoa, Brazil, email: leandro.jerusalinsky@icmbio.gov.br

Andie Ang, Mandai Nature, Singapore, email: andie.ang@colorado.edu

Foundation Liaison Officer

William R. Konstant, Margot Marsh Biodiversity Foundatio, email: williamkonstant@yahoo.com

Executive Secretary 

Ella M. Outlaw, Re:wild, Austin, TX, USA, email: eoutlaw@rewild.org

Assistant Executive Secretary

Jill Lucena, Re:wild, Austin, TX, USA, email: jlucena@rewild.org

Vice Chairs: Section on Great Apes

Dirck Byler, Re:wild, Austin Texas, USA, email: dbyler@rewild.org

Ekwoge Abwe, Wildlife Conservation Society-Ebo Forest Research Project, Cameroon, email: ekwoge@eboforest.org

Rebecca Kormos, Berkeley CA, email: rebeccakormos@yahoo.com

Annette Lanjouw, Arcus Foundation, New York, NY, USA, email: alanjouw@arcusfoundation.org

Jatna Supriatna, Department of Biology, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, email: j.supriatna@sci.ui.ac.id

Serge A. Wich, Liverpool John Moores University, England, UK, email: sergewich@gmail.com

[For inquiries relating to great apes and PS6, or the ARRC Task Force, please click here]

Vice Chairs: Section on Small Apes

Susan M. Cheyne, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK, and Borneo Nature Foundation, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia,  email: section.small.apes@gmail.com

Yan Lu, Cloud Mountain Conservation, Dali Biodiversity Conservation and Research Center, Dali, Yunnan, China, e-mail: yanlu@cloudmountain.cn

Rahayu Oktaviani, KIARA Foundation, Bogor, Indonesia, e-mail: rahayu_oktaviani@yahoo.com

Vice Chair: Section on Human-Primate Interactions

Siân Waters, Department of Anthropology, Durham University, UK, and Barbary Macaque Awareness and Conservation, Tetouan, Morocco, email: psg.hpi@gmail.com

Regional Vice Chairs - Neotropics

Mesoamerica

Liliana Cortés-Ortiz, Museum of Zoology and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, email: lcortes@umich.edu

Melissa Rodriguez, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Asociación Territorios Vivos El Salvador, San Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador, email: melissa.rg784@gmail.com

Northern Andean Countries

Erwin Palacios, Conservación Internacional Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, email: epalacios@conservation.org, palacioserwin@hotmail.com;

Eckhard W. Heymann, Deutsches Primatenzentrum, Göttingen, Germany, email: eheyman@gwdg.de

Fanny M. Cornejo, Stony Brook University, New York, USA, email: fanny.cornejo@stonybrook.edu

Stella de la Torre, San Francisco University of Quito, Quito, Ecuador, email: sdelatorre@usfq.edu.ec

Diana C. Guzman Caro, Colombiana Primate Association, Bogotá, Colombia, email: guzman@asoprimatologicacolombiana.org

Andrés Link, Department of Biological Sciences and School of Management, e-mail: Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, email: a.link74@uniandes.edu.co

Brazil and the Guianas

M. Cecília M. Kierulff, Instituto Pri-Matas, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, email: ceciliakierulff@gmail.com

Fabiano Rodrigues de Melo, Federal University of Goiás, Jataí, Goiás, Brazil, email: frmelo@ufv.br

Maurício Talebi, São Paulo Federal University, Diadema, São Paulo, Brazil, email: talebi@unifesp.br

Gabriela Cabral Rezende, Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas – IPÊ, Nazaré Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil, email: gabi.c.rezende@gmail.com

Gustavo Rodrigues Canale, Centre of Biodiversity Studies of Southern Amazon (NEBAM), Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT), Sinop, Mato Grosso, Brazil, email: grcanale@gmail.com

Leonardo Carvalho Oliveira, Departamento de Ciências, Faculdade de Formação de Professores, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FFP/UERJ), São Gonçalo, RJ, Brazil, email: leonardoco@gmail.com

Southern Cone – Argentina, Bolicia. Paraguay, Uruguay

Martin Kowalewski, Estación Biológica Corrientes (EBCo), Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales BR, CONICET Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Corrientes, Argentina, email: martinkow@gmail.com
  

Regional Vice Chairs - Africa

Rachel Ashegbofe Ikemeh, Niger Delta Forest Project, Nigeria, email: r.ashegbofe@gmail.com

Takeshi Furuichi, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama, Japan, email: furuichi@pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Stanislaus M. Kivai, Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, email: stankivai@gmail.com

Inza Koné, Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques, Côte d’Ivoire, email: inza.kone@csrs.ci 

Janette Wallis, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA, email: wallis@africanprimates.net

Regional Vice Chairs – Madagascar

Christoph Schwitzer, Dublin Zoo, Dublin, Ireland, email: christoph.schwitzer@dublinzoo.ie

Jonah Ratsimbazafy, Groupe d’étude et de recherche sur les primates (Gerp), Antananarivo, Madagascar, email: jonah@gerp-mg.org

Steig Johnson, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, email: steig.johnson@ucalgary.ca

Regional Vice Chairs – Asia

China

Baoguo Li, Northwest University, Xi'an, China, email: baoguoli@nwu.edu.cn

East and South-east Asia

Jatna Supriatna, Conservation International Indonesia Program, Jakarta, Indonesia, email: jatna.supriatna@gmail.com

Arif Setiawan, Faculty of Forestry, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, email: wawan5361@yahoo.com

Christian Roos, Deutsches Primatenzentrum, Göttingen, Germany, email: croos@dpz.eu

Ramesh Boonratana, Mahidol University International College, Salaya, Nakhon Pathom 73170, Thailand, email: rboonratana@gmail.com, ramesh.boo@mahidol.ac.th

Le Khac Quyet, Fauna & Flora International - Vietnam Conservation Support Programme, Hanoi, Vietnam, email: quyet2004@gmail.com

Herbert H. Covert, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA, email: herbert.covert@colorado.edu

Andie Ang, Mandai Nature, Singapore, email: andie.ang@colorado.edu

Phaivanh Phiapalath, Independent Consultant, Lao PDR, email: p.phiapalath@gmail.com

Takeshi Furuichi, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama, Japan, email: furuichi@pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp

South Asia

Sanjay Molur, Wildlife Information Liaison Development, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, email: herpinvert@gmail.com

Dilip Chetry, Gibbon Conservation Centre, Assam, India, email: gibbonconservationcentre@gmail.com

Red List Authority Coordinators

Kim E. Reuter, Lemur Love, San Diego, CA, USA

For great apes: Liz Williamson, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK

Publications – Editors

African Primates – Janette Wallis

Asian Primates Journal - Ramesh Boonratana, John R. Fellowes, Susan Lappan, Christian Roos & Jatna Supriatna

Lemur News – Christoph Schwitzer, Claudia Fichtel, Jörg Ganzhorn, Rodin Rasoloarison, Jonah Ratsimbazafy, Anne Yoder

Neotropical Primates – Jessica W. Lynch, Erwin Palacios, Bruna M. Bezerra,  Liliana Cortés-Ortiz, Júlio César Bicca-Marques, Eckhard W. Heymann, Anita Stone & Adrian A. Barnett

Primate Conservation – Russell A. Mittermeier, Anthony B. Rylands & Jessica W. Lynch

Tropical Field Guide Series – Russell A. Mittermeier & Anthony B. Rylands