IUCN SSC Canid Specialist Group

A conservation biologist, Claudio is a Professor of Conservation Biology at the Department of Biology, University of Oxford. Claudio is Deputy Director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), and Director of their Post Graduate Diploma in International Wildlife Conservation Practice. He is the Founder and Director of the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme.

Geraldine Werhahn (Ph.D.) is a wildlife biologist and conservationist dedicated to every element of the natural world. Her special interest are carnivores and their function in maintaining healthy ecosystems, their intelligence, and complex social life. She completed her DPhil Thesis on the phylogeny, ecology and conservation of Himalayan wolves with WildCRU at the University of Oxford, UK. As a wildlife biologist she aims to provide solid science as an argument for conservation, and as a human animal she lives the love for nature by a compassionate way of life.

Lauren is a biologist that studies the evolutionary histories and ecology of various species using genomics tools. Her research work has focused on the evolutionary history and ecology of gray wolves in Asia, especially in Pakistan and India. She has strong interests in combining genomic tools, field-based methods, and behavioral ecology to study various questions about gray wolves and other canids. Her work is motivated by conservation, where her research informs conservation management and policies in order to create effective conservation programs for endangered canids.