Cyril Kormos (French) is Vice-President for Policy at The WILD Foundation, where he conducts research and advocacy on a range of issues including wilderness law and policy, climate policy, conservation finance and biodiversity offsets. He is a specialist in conservation issues in Africa, and has done extensive fieldwork in Madagascar, Guinea-Bissau and Botswana. Mr. Kormos also serves as Vice-Chair for World Heritage for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA). In this capacity he is a member of IUCN’s World Heritage Panel, which advises UNESCO on World Heritage nominations, and attends U.N. World Heritage Committee meetings as a member of IUCN’s delegation. Mr. Kormos is also an associate editor for the International Journal of Wilderness and an editorial board member for IUCN-WCPA’s Parks journal. Prior to moving to WILD in 2002, Mr. Kormos was Senior Director for Programme Management in the President’s office at Conservation International. He has published widely in scientific, law and policy journals and has edited or coedited several books. Mr. Kormos holds a B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.Sc. in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics and a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School.
