Born and raised in Bolivia, Dan Robison PhD is a Professor of Practice of Future Generations University and a resident of Rurrenbaque, the gateway to Madidi National Park and the Bolivian Amazon. After graduating from Kansas State University in Natural Resources Management in 1984, he was appointed as a Marshall Scholar to the United Kingdom. In 1987 he obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Reading, with fieldwork in tropical Bolivia. His dissertation was a soil-based assessment of the sustainability of an alternative to slash and burn agriculture.
Between 1988 and 1993, he did postdoctoral work in the Agroecological Studies Unit at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture in Cali, Colombia. In 1993 he returned to Bolivia and has worked as an independent consultant in Protected Areas Management and Agroecology. His life interest is the sustainable use of the Amazon.
In November 2018, Dr. Robison presented a webinar on the deep history and efforts by indigeneous communities to counter the plans for the mega-dams. You can access his taped webinar here. The slides for his presentation can be accessed here.