Mike is an applied ecologist with thirty years of experience in conservation and sustainable development, who has spent over 18 years founding and directing interdisciplinary, international teams that build education models, web-based data synthesis platforms, and global research alliances. He is currently a Professor and Associate Department Head at Colorado State University, a Senior Fellow at the Impact, Value, and Sustainable Business Initiative at the Wharton School (UPenn), and a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute (Germany).