Dr. Muhtari Aminu-Kano is the current Director General of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation. He has more than thirty years of executive and managerial experiences in living natural resources management, biodiversity conservation. He bagged a first-class degree from Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria (1981), and a PhD in Applied Ecology from the Imperial College, University of London (1987). He has worked at (i) the Humanitarian Academy for Development (HAD), Birmingham University, UK (Jan 2014 – March 2018); where he led research, design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation and strategic partnership for that institution; ii) Senior Adviser on Policy & Advocacy at the Birdlife International Secretariat, Cambridge, UK (Nov 2003 – February 2011); and iii) Director/CEO, Savanna Conservation Nigeria (SCN), Kaduna, Nigeria (Feb 2003 – Oct 2003). As Programme Assistant (FAO Resident Representative in Nigeria) on a leave of absence from the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Agriculture (Jan – May 1997), Dr. Aminu-Kano spearheaded research and wrote policy papers on aspects of Nigeria Agriculture, including a briefing on “Paths to agricultural sustainability for Nigeria”. He was Assistant Director at the Lake Chad Research Institute, Federal Ministry of Agriculture, in NE Nigeria. He also lectured in Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria (Mar 1987 – Dec 1989). He served as the Project Director of the internationally renowned “Hadejia-Nguru Wetlands Conservation Project” in NE Nigeria, a project which to date is playing a critical role in natural resources conservation in that agro-ecologically important part of the country.