Paul Thomson, Senior Director of Conservation Programs at the Wildlife Conservation Network (WCN), specializes in highly threatened and endangered species, incubating conservation startups, and building leadership capacity in the environmental field. In addition to his work with WCN, Paul runs Save Pangolins, a project he co-founded to address threats to the little-known pangolin, the world’s most illegally trafficked mammal, and he serves on the board of the Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leaders program (of which he is an alum).