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Walter is the director of the Conservation and Science Program. Previously, during 2005 and early 2006, he was a consulting professor with the Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. Walter was responsible for the creation of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, which he directed from 1998 until the release of the findings in March 2005. From 1992 to 1998, he was vice president of the World Resources Institute in Washington D.C. He is a member of the board of editors of the journals Ecosystems, Ecological Applications, and Public Library of Science Biology, and past member of the board of the Society for Conservation Biology. Walter earned his Ph.D. in zoology (ecology and evolutionary biology) from the University of Washington in 1987 and his B.A. in zoology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1978. | 