Mr Ian Redmond
Doctor of the University (HonDUniv)
Year conferred: 2011
Ian Redmond is a tropical field biologist and conservationist, renowned for his work with great apes and elephants. For 30 years he has worked with mountain gorillas. As with his mentor, the late Dr Dian Fossey, the main focus of his work shifted from research to conservation in the late 1970s, when he witnessed the loss of gorillas he was studying to poachers.
Ian currently works for a wide range of organisations including the Born Free Foundation, the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, Wildlifeline and the International Fund for Animal Welfare. He established and chairs the Ape Alliance, the African Ele-Fund and the UK Rhino Group. He is Chief Consultant with GRASP, the UNEP/UNESCO Great Apes Survival Project he helped launch in 2001.
