Our Team
Board of Directors

Steve Burns
Board Member
Steve is one of the world’s leading voices to encourage zoos to support the conservation of wild nature. Until early-2021 he was President and CEO of Utah’s Hogle Zoo,
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Dr Frank Hawkins
Board Member
Dr. Frank Hawkins is a conservation biologist and policy advisor with many years of experience working with governments, finance institutions, civil society and local communities in Africa and around the world.
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Andy Holman
Treasurer
Andy is a Certified Public Accountant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He is a Principal in Ritz Holman CPAs, where for more than 30 years he has specialized in guiding the financial health of non-profit organizations.
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David Hulse
Board Member
David brings deep experience in Asian conservation and private philanthropy. He helped open the first WWF office in Hanoi in 1992 (the year Saola was discovered in Vietnam), and served as WWF’s Vietnam Country Representative until 1999
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Susie Offord-Woolley
Board Member
Susie has over ten years’ experience managing large international conservation programs specializing in human wildlife coexistence, the illegal wildlife trade, protected area management, and community engagement.
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Bill Robichaud
President Ex officio
Bill has been working on wildlife conservation in the range countries of the Saola for more than 25 years, a good part of that while living in Lao PDR.
In 2006 he co-founded (with Simon Hedges) the IUCN Saola Working Group,
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Dr Lorraine Scotson
CEO Ex officio
Lorraine is a wildlife researcher and conservationist specializing in Southeast Asia, where for more than a decade she has worked on wildlife monitoring, research and conservation.
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Dr. George Archibald
Co-Founder & Senior Conservationist, International Crane Foundation

Eric Bairrão Ruivo
Science, Collection and Conservation Director at Beauval Zoo
Troy Hansel
Conservation Planning and Monitoring Consultant, Lao PDR
Steve Shurter
Executive Director, White Oak Conservation
Professor Michele Thompson
Professor of Southeast Asian History, Southern Connecticut State University
Brooke Truesdale
Director of Development, Reef Check Foundation
Nguyen Duc Tu
Biodiversity Coordinator, IUCN/ CEPF National Coordinator, Vietnam
Technical Team
Xaisavanh Khiewvongphachan
Field Coordinator
Chanthasone
Phommachanh
Lao Programs Director
Rob Timmins
Technical Director
Support Team
Lulu Deng
Grants Assistant
Sounutda (Pookie) Maniphonh
Lao Admin Assistant
Bouaphan Phanthavong
Government Liaison Facilitator
Volunteers
We recruit skilled volunteers to fulfill critical roles in our development. Visit the Get Involved section to learn of any current opportunities.