David Gadsden is the Director of Conservation Solutions at the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Esri. In this role, he oversees an interdisciplinary team dedicated to supporting a global user community of over 5,000 conservation organizations worldwide. As an applied geographer, David brings decades of expertise leveraging geographic information systems (GIS) to address both humanitarian and environmental challenges. Under his stewardship, Esri has innovated solutions to pressing conservation challenges, spanning landscape level ecological monitoring to human-wildlife conflict resolution. As Esri's principal liaison to the IUCN, David's coordinates efforts to harness geographic information systems technology, to advance effective conservation management through the Green List Standard and equitable pathways to Target #3 though the Act30 initiative.