Don Melnick

Don J. Melnick is an environmental biologist and conservationist. He holds the position of Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Conservation Biology at Columbia University, where he is also professor of anthropology and biological sciences.

He served as the founding Executive Director of the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC), a consortium of organizations including Columbia, the American Museum of Natural History, the New York Botanical Garden, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and Wildlife Preservation Trust International. He also served as co-chair of the United Nations Millennium Task Force on Environmental Sustainability, charged with reporting on the Millennium Development Goals for global environmental sustainability to the Secretary General.

Melnick received his Ph.D. in Physical Anthropology from Yale in 1981, and became one of Columbia's youngest tenured faculty members, as well as the youngest person ever to serve as chair of Columbia's Anthropology Department. For six years (1987-1993), he lived in one of Columbia's undergraduate dormitories as faculty-in-residence.

External links

• Melnick bio
• Info from the UN Millennium Project

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