About the Speaker:
 
               Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson MA, PhD, a renowned international
               profile, is Director of the National Botanic Gardens in
               Glasnevin, Dublin, and Chairman of the Global Partnership
               for Plant Conservation (GPPC).
               Dr. Wyse Jackson was born in Kilkenny, educated in Dublin
and is a graduate of Trinity College, where he has been associated with
its botanic gardens. He is the author of many scientific papers on plant conservation,
gardening and horticulture, Irish floristics and plant systematics, and the management
and conservation of endangered island floras.

About GPPC: