The African Leadership University’s School of Wildlife Conservation has appointed Richard Vigne as its first-ever Executive Director. Vigne joined the Management Skills for Wildlife Conservation Advisory Board in September 2021, after stepping down as CEO of Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Laikipia Kenya –– now East Africa’s largest sanctuary for black rhinos –– which he founded in 1994.
Richard was born and raised in Kericho western Kenya, as the son of a tea planter. Richard is a conservation practitioner with more than two decades’ experience in Africa, having studied Zoology at Newcastle University and thereafter worked as the operations manager for a safari company in Uganda and western Zaire, before developing Ol Pejeta Conservancy. READ MORE.