Walter V Reid

Dr. Walter Reid is Director of the Conservation and Science Program at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Previously, during 2005-2006, he was a Professor with the Woods Institute at Stanford University. From 1998 to 2005, Dr. Reid created and then was the Director of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a UN-sponsored 4-year international assessment of the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being being. Dr. Reid earned his Ph.D. in Zoology (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) from the University of Washington in 1987 and his B.A. in Zoology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1978.