About the Presenter
STEPHANIE BOYLES GRIFFIN
The Humane Society of the United States, USA
Stephanie Boyles Griffin currently serves as the Senior Program Director in the Wildlife Protection Department at the Humane Society of the United States and as Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Botstiber Institute for Wildlife Fertility Control.
For more than 25 years, she has worked with federal, state, local, and tribal agencies, non-governmental agencies, industries, academia, and policymakers to develop and advance the use of humane, effective, and sustainable methods for mitigating human-wildlife conflicts and promoting coexistence. She served as a Commissioner on the Maryland Wildlife Advisory Commission from 2011-2022 and currently serves on the Free-Roaming Equids and Ecosystem Sustainability (FREES) Network’s Steering Committee. She also serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Human Wildlife Interactions and recently served as a guest editor for a special issue of Wildlife Research on wildlife fertility control.
She holds a BA in Biology from Notre Dame of Maryland University and an M.S. in Environmental Science from Christopher Newport University. Her research has focused on assessing the efficacy, feasibility, fiscal and ecological benefits associated with installing and maintaining water flow control devices to mitigate conflicts with beavers on roadways in Virginia and using fertility control methods to manage federally protected wild equid populations in the U.S.
GIOVANNA MASSEI, PHD
Botstiber Institute for Wildlife Fertility Control, University of York, UK
Dr. Giovanna Massei serves as Director of the Botstiber Institute for Wildlife Fertility Control Europe office and Professor at the University of York, UK. For 25 years Giovanna has led research on wildlife management in the UK and overseas. Giovanna received her PhD from the University of Aberdeen (UK). Her research interest focus on fertility control to manage wildlife and free roaming livestock and on the ecology and population control of wild boar. Giovanna published circa 150 scientific papers and popular articles and she’s an Associate Editor for the journal Human Wildlife Interactions.
