Daniel C. Taylor

Who is Daniel C. Taylor?

Daniel C. Taylor is an American scholar and practitioner of social change, with notable achievements in community-led conservation and global education.

In the words of Wade Davis, Taylor’s method was shown around Mount Everest in “the creation of a nature preserve, not administered by distant bureaucrats but protected by the people who dwelt within its boundaries. It was a bold idea, so novel that at every meeting Daniel was able to increase the size” until trans-border protection resulted for the entire Mount Everest and central Himalayan region encompassing an area larger than Switzerland connecting the ecosystems of China and Nepal.

Taylor is Executive Director of Future Generations and Future Generations Graduate School both of which he founded. He has established thirteen nonprofit organizations, twelve still thrive, five are in the US. Since 1993, he has been also a Senior Associate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

He was knighted Suprabala-Gorkha-Dakshina-Bahu in Nepal in 1990, made the first Honorary Professor of Quantitative Ecology by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1995, and decorated with the Order of the Golden Ark by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands in 2004.