Terry Donaldson is serving his second term as Chair of the Coral Reef Fishes Specialist Group and is leading the Global Assessment of Reef Fishes under the auspices of the IUCN/SSC Global Marine Species Assessment.

Terry is currently on the graduate faculty of the University of Guam Marine Laboratory (UOGML) where he serves as the ichthyologist (fish biologist). He earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Evolutionary Biology and Systematics (Ichthyology) at the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science and was both a Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow and US National Science Foundation-JSPS Research Fellow at Kyushu University in Japan.

Terry has trained in ichthyology, behavioral and historical ecology, biogeography, and fisheries biology, and specializes in reef and insular freshwater fish behavior, biogeography and diversity, ecology, and extinction risk analysis. He has over 25 years of experience working on reef systems, mainly in the Indo-West Pacific region, has led or participated in several research expeditions, and has produced more than 50 publications on fish biology. He is a member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, the Ichthyological Society of Japan, the Society for Conservation Biology, the American Society of Naturalists, and the Pacific Science Association. Terry is also a Member of the Board of the Society for the Conservation of Reef Fish Aggregations. Previously, he served as Senior Scientist and Director of the Integrative Biological Research Program of the International Marinelife Alliance, located also at the UOGML.