Summary of Curriculum Vitae H.H.T. Prins
Family name: Prins
First names: Herbert Henri Théodore
Year of birth: 1953
At present he is full professor in Resource Ecology, Wageningen University, the Netherlands, since 1991. He also is the Chairman of the Graduate School "Production Ecology & Resource Conservation".
He has represented The Netherlands and the European Union at meetings of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Additionally he has or had board memberships of the (European) Tropical Biology Association, (Executive) Netherlands Nature Conservancy ("Natuurmonumenten", 960,000 members), Van Tienhoven Foundation, Netherlands Committee for International Nature Conservation and others. He is on the editorial boards of two scientific journals. He is and has been member of a number of scientific juries. His previous positions were research fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences while conducting research in Tanzania, parks research management specialist for the World Bank in Indonesia, and research fellow for the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical research (WOTRO) in Tanzania.
He is member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission, Netherlands Committee IUCN, Member IUCN Committee on Ecosystem Management, IUCN Asian Cattle specialist group, and the Machakos Wildlife Forum, Kenya. He has conducted consultancies in Indonesia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, and Canada. He is Officer in the Order of the Golden Ark (bestowed by HRH Prince Bernhard) and Officer in the Order of Oranje Nassau (bestowed by HM the Queen).
He is author or co-author of 190 scientific publications, 30 popular scientific publications, and 30 reports. He has co-edited 5 books, and written 1 book. Twenty-five PhD students are being tutored, most of them working in tropical countries. Sixty-two students already received their doctorate after his supervision.
Furthermore 4 BBC films and 1 National Geographic film were based on Prins’ fieldwork.