Dr. Wes Sechrest

Wes co-founded Re:wild, where he is Board Chair, CEO, and Chief Scientist. He leads Re:wild’s mission to use nature-based solutions to address the interconnected biodiversity, climate, and human wellbeing crises. He drives the strategic vision behind Re:wild’s collaborative approach to conservation of the world’s threatened wildlife and ecosystems. Re:wild's success is driven by its unique partnership model with Indigenous Peoples and local communities, national and international non-governmental organizations, and governments.

Wes has a background in conservation biology, including work on threatened species, ecosystem conservation, zoology, protected areas, biodiversity patterns and processes, natural history, environmental science, and applied conservation science. He has coauthored numerous scientific papers in leading journals including Science, Nature, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Haiti National Trust and is a Zoological Society of London Honorary Conservation Fellow. He is Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Virginia and his B.S. in Biology from Wake Forest University.