Lanjouw, Annette

Annette Lanjouw is the Vice-president, Strategic Initiatives and the Great Ape Program for the Arcus Foundation, the largest private funder of great ape conservation and sanctuaries in the world. She holds a BA in zoology and psychology from Victoria University (Wellington, New Zealand) and an MA in behavioural ecology from Utrecht University (the Netherlands), and has studied bonobos, chimpanzees, and gorillas in the wild. Before Lanjouw joined the Arcus Foundation in 2007 she worked for various nongovernmental organizations over two decades to further develop a supportive institutional and policy environment for integrated conservation in central Africa. She presently brings her experience in the areas of behavioral ecology, conservation strategy, organizational management, institutional development, and policy to her work across Africa and South East Asia.