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Brian Gratwicke, D.Phil - Assistant Director
 Brian Gratwicke joined Save The
Tiger Fund in 2004 and has been managing the program's grant
administration and working to improve the evaluation methods
used. Hailing from Zimbabwe, Brian is a well-rounded conservation biologist with a deep
love for large mammals and a wide range of experience and
expertise. His current research interests
include measures of conservation success and meta-analysis of grant
programs.
Brian was awarded his
Doctoral degree in Tropical Ecology from Oxford
University in 2004. A
Rhodes Scholar, Brian researched endangered coral reef fish habitats in
the British Virgin Islands and wrote his
dissertation on factors affecting the distribution of fishes in such
near shore habitats. In addition, Brian holds a Masters degree in
Fisheries Biology and a Bachelors degree in Biology from the
University of Zimbabwe.
Brian has produced
extensive publications, including 15 papers in scientific, peer-reviewed
journals, and 18 popular articles on tropical ecology and conservation
and is a passionate wildlife photographer His writing and research tends to focus on: measures of
conservation success, conservation prioritization, distributional
ecology, experimental design, invasive plant and animal species, fish
migrations, pollution studies, community ecology, endangered species,
and natural history.
In Africa, Brian spent years working on freshwater fish conservation,
was an active member of the wildlife conservation community, and
supported Birdlife Zimbabwe and the Wildlife and Environment
Society. In America, Brian worked as a volunteer biologist with
the National Zoo and served as a contributing author on Conservation
International's Hotspots Book, enabling them to include fish species in
their global assessment of biodiversity hotspots. Brian is a
member of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, serves
on the Science Committee for the National Fish Habitat Initiative, and
runs a small web-based organization dedicated to conservation issues
in Zimbabwe www.zimconservation.com.
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