After completing a degree in Zoology at Stellenbosch University, I moved to Zululand where I was employed as a Black Rhino monitor. It was during this process that we noticed the need for the enhancement and outsourcing of existing monitoring programs, now called Wildlife ACT.
Simon is one of Wildlife ACT’s co-founders and trustees, and currently works to grow their conservation footprint and awareness. Within this he works as the Associate Director for Conservation for Stanford Universities Program for Conservation Genomics, which has contracted Wildlife ACT to oversee their conservation relationships and provide guidance to the identifying the pressing conservation questions that next generation genomic tools could be developed to answer. Simon and his partner, Jordana (who is doing her PhD on conservation genomics at Stanford), are largely nomadic moving between the US and the African continent, with eye to setting in the Lowveld region of South Africa.