George Gorman

George received a Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University and became a biology professor at UCLA. His specialty was evolutionary biology and herpetology and his primary research area was in the Caribbean region. At age 40, he departed academia and entered law school. After having a brief legal career, his “day job” for the last 25 years has been asset management and financial planning. During this period, he has found time to return to conservation: he spent one year in Costa Rica with Stanford’s Center for Conservation Biology, two years at the Yale School of Forestry (partly as a 60-year-old grad student, partly as a research associate), and several semesters as a visiting fellow at Cornell University. In recent years he has taught a graduate seminar in conservation values, history, and law at Cornell and Harvard. George has also been involved with the management of the endowment funds for the Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund for many years.