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Mark Bauman
Award-winning media and impact communications executive; Former CEO Grid.news; Former CEO Virtual Wonders; Former Senior Vice President of Smithsonian; Former Chairman of National Geographic’s Cross Platform Committee and Executive Vice President of National Geographic Television.
![Marc Bekoff](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Bio Photos/Marc%20Bekoff%20Bio%20Photo-400x400.b4c636da.jpg)
Marc Bekoff
Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado, Boulder; Co-Founder of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals; Author
![Wade Davis](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Bio Photos/Wade%20Davis%20Bio%20Photo-400x400.9e4347ed.png)
Wade Davis
Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia; National Geographic Society Explorer-in-Residence and Explorers Council Member; Author; Filmmaker
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Terry D. Garcia
CEO of Exploration Ventures; Former Executive Vice President and Chief Science and Exploration Officer for the National Geographic Society
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Mary Ellen Hannibal
Author; Citizen Scientist; Speaker
![Morgan Heim](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Bio Photos/Mo%20Heim-400x400.b4c636da.jpg)
Morgan Heim
Photographer; Filmmaker; Scientist; Self-Proclaimed “Science Groupie”
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Sheril Kirshenbaum
Executive Director of ScienceDebate; Director of The Energy Poll at The University of Texas at Austin; Author
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Paula Pebsworth
Primatologist and Independent Researcher
![Stuart Leonard Pimm](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Bio Photos/Stuart%20Pimm%20Bio%20300x370.56d379cf.jpg)
Stuart Leonard Pimm
Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University; Director of SavingNature; Author
![Joyce Poole](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Bio Photos/Joyce%20Poole%20400x400.865d93c7.jpg)
Joyce Poole
World Authority on Elephant Behaviour; Co-Director of ElephantVoices; Author
![Chris Rainier](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Bio Photos/ChrisRainier-400x400.b4c636da.jpg)
Chris Rainier
National Geographic Society Fellow; Documentary Photographer; Founder and Director of The Cultural Sanctuaries Foundation; Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society
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