Dr. Adrian Loo is a conservation biologist and held appointments in the National Parks Board, Singapore as Group Director for Wildlife Management and Senior Director for Community Projects, Group Director Conservation and Director, Terrestrial, National Biodiversity Centre. He led teams to reduce human-wildlife conflicts through science-based management, education and community stewardship.  Working with international partners, he led efforts in fighting illegal wildlife trade through enforcement and wildlife forensics.  As Senior Director for Community Projects, he led stakeholder-engagement in the One Million Trees movement in Singapore to plant native trees to enhance well-being, and as Nature-based Solutions. He oversaw species recovery programmes and habitat enhancement projects in Singapore.  He continues to work with the Centre for Wildlife Forensics at NParks, recently set up to combat illegal wildlife trade.  He is the mentor for the CITES Global Youth Network engaging youth in the protection of endangered species from unsustainable trade and illegal wildlife trade.

He graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) studying gene flow in palms in the montane forests of Peninsular Malaysia and was a Royal Society Southeast Asia post-doctoral fellow in Kew Gardens, UK and carried out research as a Lee Kuan Yew Post-doctoral Fellowship in the National University of Singapore.  He is currently a Fellow of the National Parks Board and lectures on Environmental Science at the National University of Singapore. A former high school teacher, he believes in educating the next generation for change.