Jean-Philippe Puyravaud

ECOS

Jean-Philippe Puyravaud is the director of ECOS, a trust based in India dedicated to the conservation of biodiversity. He studied primary productivity of African savannas and the effect of human-related disturbance in India. He was the first director of the Madagascar-based Centre ValBio, a field station of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and was an executive of a renewable energy company for three years. He is particularly interested in landscape ecology and landscape optimization for conservation and therefore initiated projects on the study of deforestation patterns in India, and the habitat requirements of threatened species such as the Asian elephant. He was trained at Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France.