Walter Jetz

Director, Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University

Walter Jetz is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and of the Environment at Yale University where he directs the Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change. He is the Jack and Laura Dangermond Scientific Chair of the EO Wilson Biodiversity Foundation and co-chairs the Species Population Working Group of GEO BON. For IPBES, he was a member of the Task Force on Data and Knowledge, chaired the Task Group on Indicators and was Lead Author of the Global Assessment. He directs Map of Life, a platform addressing global species populations and their change, and the Half-Earth Project Map which identifies global priorities for area-based conservation.