Sabri Zain
Director of Policy, TRAFFIC
Sessions: Panel [Planet] (Day 1 Afternoon)
Director of Policy, TRAFFIC
Sessions: Panel [Planet] (Day 1 Afternoon)
Sabri Zain is the Director of Policy for TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, and has 25 years’ communications, campaign and policy experience in wildlife conservation.
Sabri began his working career as a media relations executive with IBM in Malaysia in 1988 and entered the conservation field in 1992 when he joined WWF Malaysia as its Director of Communications. Eight years later, Sabri joined TRAFFIC, based in Cambridge in the UK.
As TRAFFIC's Director of Policy, Sabri is responsible for leading the development, implementation and coordination of TRAFFIC's wildlife trade policy programmes and priorities, as well as leading its policy interventions at high-level international events, regional fora and meetings of major international conventions such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna, CITES, and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, is the leading non-governmental organization working globally on trade in wild animals and plants in the context of both biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. Established by IUCN and WWF in 1976, it currently employs approximately 140 staff in six regional teams across the globe and a head office based at the David Attenborough Building in the University of Cambridge.
Sabri began his working career as a media relations executive with IBM in Malaysia in 1988 and entered the conservation field in 1992 when he joined WWF Malaysia as its Director of Communications. Eight years later, Sabri joined TRAFFIC, based in Cambridge in the UK.
As TRAFFIC's Director of Policy, Sabri is responsible for leading the development, implementation and coordination of TRAFFIC's wildlife trade policy programmes and priorities, as well as leading its policy interventions at high-level international events, regional fora and meetings of major international conventions such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna, CITES, and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, is the leading non-governmental organization working globally on trade in wild animals and plants in the context of both biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. Established by IUCN and WWF in 1976, it currently employs approximately 140 staff in six regional teams across the globe and a head office based at the David Attenborough Building in the University of Cambridge.