Mike Baltzer, Executive Director

Mike is a conservation biologist with over 30 years of experience in Asia, Africa and Europe. He started his career undertaking and leading biological inventory expeditions in Uganda, Vietnam and Indonesia. He since specialised in leading large, complex, multi-country focused conservation programmes. For more than 18 years, he worked for WWF as the Conservation Director for their Greater Mekong Programme, Director of the Danube-Carpathian Programme and was for nine years the Lead for their global tiger programme, Tigers Alive. Mike left WWF in 2018 to launch a new partnership he conceived and founded focused on freshwater fish, SHOAL.

Michael Edmondstone, Communications and Engagement Lead

Over the past 15 years, Michael has worked across a range of communications roles, including as a journalist in Tanzania, and marketing manager in a media agency. After spending the best part of a decade in the corporate sector, he joined an environmental NGO as a communications officer, where he felt he could better make a positive difference to the challenges facing the natural world. He joined SHOAL in 2020 and enjoys the challenge of drawing attention to freshwater species that have historically been overlooked. 

Current vacancies:

– SHOAL US Programme Lead

– Southeast Asia Programme Coordinator