{"id":24336,"date":"2023-01-20T15:42:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T15:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/?page_id=24336"},"modified":"2025-03-24T15:19:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T15:19:02","slug":"dr-chris-thouless-qgm","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/about-ste\/our-people\/dr-chris-thouless-qgm\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Chris Thouless, QGM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"author-bio-text\" class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_team_member et_pb_team_member_3 clearfix et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_team_member_description\">\n<h2 class=\"et_pb_module_header\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39793 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.savetheelephants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/DSF1056-2-copy-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/DSF1056-2-copy-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/DSF1056-2-copy-1024x993.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/DSF1056-2-copy-768x745.jpg 768w, https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/DSF1056-2-copy-800x776.jpg 800w, https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/DSF1056-2-copy-600x582.jpg 600w, https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/DSF1056-2-copy-400x388.jpg 400w, https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/DSF1056-2-copy.jpg 1062w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Dr. Chris Thouless, <b>QGM<\/b><\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"et_pb_module_header\">Director of Conservation &amp; Director of the Elephant Crisis Fund<\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Chris Thouless has nearly 30 years of experience working for governments, NGOs and private sector in Africa and Asia. He is a specialist in wildlife conservation, community-based natural resource management, project management, protected area planning and management, public private partnerships and tourism development. He has a particular interest in elephant conservation, having worked on elephant movement patterns, human wildlife conflict and elephant surveys in several countries.<\/p>\n<p>He was Chairman of CITES Panel of Experts on the African Elephant in 1996 and has been a member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission since 1986. He was lead author of the African Elephant Status Report (2016). Chris has held a number of senior positions, including coordinator of the reconstruction of the Nairobi National Museum, director of Millenium Challenge Corporation investments in community conservation in Namibia, senior wildlife biologist for the Kalahari in Botswana, chief advisor on sustainable tourism to the government of Namibia and deputy director of the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, a leading private sector conservation organisation in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Chris holds an MA in zoology from the University of Oxford, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He was awarded the Queen\u2019s Gallantry Medal in 1991.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/about-ste\/our-people\/\"><br \/>\n<button class=\"btn\">Back to our team<\/button><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Chris Thouless, QGM Director of Conservation &amp; Director of the Elephant Crisis Fund Dr. Chris Thouless has nearly 30 years of experience working for governments, NGOs and private sector in Africa and Asia. He is a specialist in wildlife conservation, community-based natural resource management, project management, protected area planning and management, public private partnerships [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":1596,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24336\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}