JEFFREY A. MCNEELY - IUCN Chief Scientist. Jeff has been at IUCN since 1980, when he was appointed Executive Officer of the Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas. He served as Director of the Programme Division from 1983 to 1987, when he became Deputy Director General (Conservation). He was named Chief Conservation Officer in 1988, a position which was converted to Chief Biodiversity Officer in 1992; he was appointed Chief Scientist in 1996, responsible for overseeing all of IUCN's scientific work.

McNeely has designed numerous programmes, advised governments and conservation organizations on conservation policy and practice, and produced a variety of technical and popular publications. Books have included: National Parks, Conservation, and Development (the proceedings of the III World Congress on National Parks); People and Protected Areas in the Hindu-Kush Himalaya; Culture and Conservation; Economics and Biological Diversity; Conserving the World's Biological Diversity; Biodiversity Conservation in the Asia-Pacific Region; and Conservation and the Future: Trends and Options Toward the Year 2025.

As Secretary-General of the IV World Congress on National Parks and Protected Areas (Caracas, 1992), McNeely helped develop new concepts relating people to protected areas, and in this capacity edited Parks for Life, the official report resulting from the Congress. He edited or co-edited a number of other books resulting from Caracas, including: Partnerships for Conservation; Protecting Nature: Regional Reviews of Protected Areas; and Protected Areas Economics and Policy.

He has published 40 books and some 500 technical and popular articles on a wide range of conservation issues, seeking to link conservation of natural resources to the maintenance of cultural diversity and to economically-sustainable ways of life. He serves on the editorial advisory board of fourteen international journals.

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