Mike Baltzer
Executive Director, SHOAL
Shoal
Mike is a conservation biologist with over 30 years of experience in Asia, Africa and Europe. He started his career undertaking and leading biological inventory expeditions in Uganda, Vietnam and Indonesia. He has since specialised in leading large, complex, multi-country focused conservation programmes. For more than 18 years, he worked for WWF as the Conservation Director for their Greater Mekong Programme, Director of the Danube-Carpathian Programme and was for nine years the Lead for their global tiger programme, Tigers Alive. In 2019, he founded and launched a new global initiative called the SHOAL initiative for freshwater life, to help end the freshwater species crisis. SHOAL is a global partnership hosted by Synchronicity Earth and Rewild.
