2023
Master Planning and Zoo Design Conference

Principal of Jon Coe Design; Master of Landscape Architecture

CEO of Houston Zoo; former Director/CEO of Minnesota Zoo; former Associate Director of Planning and Design for the Wildlife Conservation Society; former President of WAZA; 2023 WAZA Heini Hediger Award recipient

Founding Principal of Studio Hanson/Roberts; Founding Principal of The Portico Group; Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects

Principal Emeritus of Zoo Design Inc.; Former Director of Zoo Bratislava

Principal Partner of Bernard Harrison and Friend Ltd.; Former President of SEAZA; Former CEO of Wildlife Reserve Singapore

Founder of ESCO Co. Ltd; Chief Planner for the 2005 Aichi World EXPO in Japan; Architect headed the Hawaii Floating Sea City project at Okinawa EXPO

Vice President of animal care at Mandai Wildlife Group

CEO of Cologne Zoo; existing member  and former chair of WAZA Reverse the Red Committee; former President of WAZA; Global Humane Rewards 2023 Wolfgang Kiessling International Prize for Species Conservation recipient

Director of Endangered Primate Rescue Center in Vietnam; retired/former Director of Wroclaw Zoo; 2022 WAZA Heini Hediger Award recipient

Retired/former Director of Chester Zoo; former President of WAZA; GMR has received numerous personal awards for work in conservation, education and scientific research including: Lifetime Achievement Awards from BIAZA and EAZA; 2011 Heidi Hediger Award from WAZA; Ullyses S. Seal Medal from CPSG (IUCN); E.D. Le Cren Medal from FSBI and IUCN (SSC) Chair's Citation for Excellence. Chester Zoo gained more than 300 awards under his directorship, including the Queens Award for Enterprise (the highest award for business success in the UK)

Owner of Erik van Vilet Zoo Design; Committee Member of for Technical Assistance Committee of EAZA

Professor at Osaka University of Arts; Zoo Designer

Vice President, Head of Exhibit Design and Master Planning at Mandai Wildlife Group