Dr. Brett Wright is a professor and former Dean of Clemson University’s College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences. Prior to being dean, he was the chairman of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management. For more than three decades, Brett's research has focused on applying behavioral science research to problems associated with the management of park and environmental resources. He has published extensively on the human dimensions of natural resources management in national and international journals and has conducted behavioral science research for the U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, state fish and wildlife agencies, and local park and recreation organizations. In recent years, he has worked internationally in Africa and Asia, completing research on illegal behaviors related to parks and wildlife, and household livelihoods of indigenous peoples living adjacent to parks. His most recent study involved community-based tourism enterprises and their impacts on conservation of endangered mountain gorillas in the Greater Virunga Transboundary Landscape in Rwanda, Uganda and the Congo. In addition, he was appointed in 2017 as the Director of the U.S. Tiger University Consortium, a 4-university collaborative to support the Global Tiger Recovery Program. In that capacity, he is leading teams of faculty from Clemson, Auburn, LSU and Missouri — all tiger-mascot schools — in initiatives aimed at reversing the decline in the number of tigers in the wild.