Robert Rose is the Executive Director for the Institute for Integrative Conservation (IIC) at William & Mary.   The IIC is at the forefront of transformational research and education that will ultimately serve to advance sustainability efforts, solve real-world conservation issues, and train the next generation of diverse conservation leaders. Robert came to William & Mary in 2015 as the Director for the Center for Geospatial Analysis (CGA).  Prior to William & Mary he spent seven years at the Wildlife Conservation Society as the Assistant Director of Conservation Support, a team that provided technical support and training to conservation programs around the globe.  Robert’s interests include conservation and conservation planning, the use of GIS and remote sensing to better understand drivers of land change and broader conservation issues, the promotion of remote sensing for conservation applications and the integration of advanced and interactive geovisualization tools to better engage students in the classroom.  Robert earned a PhD in Geography with a minor in ecology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

Emily is a passionate advocate for equity and environmental justice, and brings two decades of experience growing and evolving organizations in the nonprofit and philanthropic fields to the Honnold Foundation. She has worked in Central America, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and the U.S., with a focus on sustainability, gender and racial equity, public health, and community development. Emily holds a Master’s Degree in Sustainable International Development from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, and graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in Philosophy and Psychology. Prior to joining the Honnold Foundation, Emily was the Executive Director of GirlVentures, and a co-founder of Rise Up and Project Aruna. Her writing has been featured in Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Guardian, and the Huffington Post.

Outside of work, Emily is happiest in and around the water, whether it's her community pool in Oakland, a glacial lake, or the Pacific Ocean. She loves exploring the outdoors with her family, writing poetry in rare quiet moments, and is on a quest to find Northern California’s best vegetarian tacos.

Miguel Morales has over 30 years of experience designing, implementing, and monitoring conservation projects around the world.

During his career, Dr. Morales has worked for Fundación Moisés Bertoni, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in his native Paraguay. Prior to joining The Nature Conservancy, he worked for Conservation International (CI) for almost 17 years, where he held a number of positions including Protected Areas Management Advisor, Conservation Strategies Director, and most recently Senior Vice-President for the CI-Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the CI-Green Climate Fund (GCF) Agencies. During his tenure, Miguel helped secure close to USD 300 million in funding for conservation and climate change projects in over 30 countries around the world.

Alexander von Bismarck has extensive, senior-level experience in all aspects of EIA’s campaigns to protect forests from illegal logging, the atmosphere from greenhouse gases and ozone-layer-depleting chemicals, and endangered wildlife species from illegal international trade in their products. Von Bismarck has undertaken EIA undercover investigations into illegal logging and associated wood trade in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan, Honduras, Madagascar, the Russian Far East and China to document the flow of illegally sourced wood into the U.S. market. He has presented evidence to senior U.S. enforcement officials, Department of Justice officials, Walmart management, furniture procurement managers at JC Penney’s headquarters in Dallas, and the management of other major U.S. companies. Von Bismarck also led EIA’s detailed coordination with congressional representatives, industry and environmentalists to finalize the U.S. Lacey Act’s “plant provision” amendments enacted into law in May 2008.

Von Bismarck holds a Master of Science in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics, where he focused on international governance mechanisms for natural resources in the developing world. He also is a graduate of Harvard University’s Environmental Science and Public Policy program.