Evgeny A. SHVARTS is Director of
Conservation, World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) Russian Program Office. He was
founder and during six years (1992-1998) Chairman of the Board at the
Biodiversity Conservation Center in Moscow. During 1996-1998 he was the manager
of Protected Areas Component of GEF/World Bank 'Russian Federation Biodiversity
Conservation Project'. During 11 years he was the member of Scientific Council
and Senior Scientific Fellow (1990-2000) in Institute of Geography of Russian
Academy of Sciences. He holds a Dr.Sc. (2003, May) in Geoecology and Ph.D.
(1987, May) in Biogeography from the Institute of Geography of the Russian
Academy of Sciences and a master's degree in zoology and botany from Biological
Faculty of Moscow State University. Author of 1 book and more than 120
scientific and newspaper publications, including 'Biodiversity and Conservation',
'Journal of Biogeography', 'Ecoscience', 'Journal of The Royal Society of New
Zealand', 'Journal of Zoology', 'Wildlife Society Bulletin', 'Doklady Biological
Sciences' and in many leading Russian Academical Journals and Russain national
newspapers and magazins. Founder of Journal/Bulletin 'State Reserves and
National Parks' (in Russian) and member of editorial board of three Journals: 'Conservation
of Nature', 'State Reserves and National Parks', 'Sustainable Forestry'. Member
of: WWF International Task Force for Central Asia Countries, Board of
Biodiversity Conservation Center, Public Advisory Board of World Bank (Moscow
office), Advisory Board of Russian Regional Environmental Center, etc.