Prof. Dr. Randall C. Kyes is a Research Professor in the Department of Psychology and an Adjunct Research Professor in the Departments of Global Health and Anthropology. He is also the Founding Director of the university’s Center for Global Field Study, and a Core Scientist and Unit Chief of Global Conservation, Education and Outreach at the Washington National Primate Research Center, University of Washington (UW), USA. Prof. Kyes joined the UW in 1993 after completing a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and a PhD in 1989 from the University of Georgia. His research focuses on field-based studies of nonhuman primates and other wildlife in the areas of conservation biology and global health, at the human–environment interface.