Ellis, Susie - Executive Director, International Rhino Foundation

Virginia , USA

s.ellis@rhinos-irf.org

Dr. Susie Ellis is Executive Director of the International Rhino Foundation. Prior to joining IRF, Dr. Ellis was a Vice President at Conservation International, focusing on terrestrial and marine biodiversity conservation. She has worked in more than 30 countries during the course of her career, with species ranging from penguins to pandas, and now, rhinos. Dr. Ellis has written more than 100 technical papers, proceedings and book chapters. From 1991-2001, she was Senior Program Officer for IUCN’s Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG). She co-led a 5-year collaborative interdisciplinary project for giant panda conservation in China that has enhanced collaboration among agencies responsible for their conservation and which resulted in a book highlighting the project’s discoveries, Giant Pandas: Biology, Veterinary Medicine and Management. Dr. Ellis is well-known in the zoo community, having worked for the Minnesota Zoo, Lincoln Park Zoo, San Diego Zoo and Sea World. She and her husband, Dr. David Wildt , live in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia .