Experts by Destination: Africa
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Akram Allam
Recognized as a leading scholar of ancient Egyptian history, "Aki" Allam has been a licensed Egyptologist for more than 30 years. Born in Cairo, he received a university degree with a specialty in ancient Egyptian history... More »
Gregory Anderson
National Geographic Society Fellow Gregory Anderson is a linguist and leading authority on endangered languages. As a founder and co-research leader of the Society’s Enduring Voices Project, he works to document, preserve, and revitalize threatened languages... More »
St. John Anderson
Biologist St. John (Jo) Anderson moved to East Africa in 1995 shortly after graduating from Oxford University... More »
Massimo Bassano
Born and raised in Italy, photojournalist Massimo Bassano has published his work in National Geographic Traveler and on the National Geographic website, plus in numerous European publications. He regularly teaches National Geographic photography workshops in Tuscany and Venice... More »
Steve Boyes
Dr. Steve Boyes has been leading expeditions into Africa's wild places for more than ten years... More »
Bill Branch
Bill Branch has been a wildlife biologist at the Port Elizabeth Museum in South Africa since 1979 and has undertaken fieldwork from Ethiopia to South Africa and Senegal to Madagascar. Bill is also a general naturalist and keen birder... More »
David Bygott
Biologist and artist David Bygott first came to Tanzania in 1969 to work on Jane Goodall's National Geographic-funded team studying wild chimpanzees. David spent four years as a lion biologist for the Serengeti Lion Project, researching lion behavior in northern Tanzania... More »
Wade Davis
An Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society, Wade Davis holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his Ph.D... More »
Jay Dickman
Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer Jay Dickman has worked in photojournalism for more than 35 years, covering topics as diverse as the war in El Salvador, the Olympics, national political conventions, six Super Bowl's, and the 40th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. Among his over 25 assignments for the National Geographic Society, Jay has lived for three months in a Stone Age village in Papua New Guinea and spent a week under the Arctic ice in a nuclear attack sub... More »
Amy Dickman
Zoologist Amy Dickman has worked in Africa for more than 13 years. She spent six years at the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia, conducted research on human-carnivore conflict in Tanzania, and holds the Kaplan Senior Research Fellowship in Wild Cat Conservation at Oxford University... More »
Sylvia Earle
Marine biologist Sylvia Earle is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society. Named one of Time magazine's "Heroes for the Planet" in 1998, Sylvia has pioneered research on marine ecosystems... More »
Mona El Nahas
Cairo native Mona El Nahas has introduced many Americans to the wonders of Egypt since she became a licensed guide in 1982. She earned a masters in teaching English as a foreign language, and she enjoys her job for the opportunity it gives her to meet many different types of people and show them the marvels of her country... More »
Fred Hiebert
Archaeologist and National Geographic Fellow Fred Hiebert has traced ancient trade routes overland and across the seas for more than 20 years. His excavations span the globe, from ancient Silk Road sites in Asia to underwater archaeology projects in the Black Sea and South America... More »
Donald Johanson
Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson is best known as the man who discovered “Lucy,” the 3.2-million-year-old partial skeleton and hominin ancestor to Homo sapiens... More »
Dereck and Beverly Joubert
National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence Dereck and Beverly Joubert are the award-winning filmmakers and conservationists who established National Geographic’s Big Cats Initiative, a comprehensive program to protect endangered felines worldwide. The Jouberts have been filming, researching, and exploring in Africa for more than 25 years, and their coverage of unique predator behavior has resulted in 22 films, 10 books, and many articles for National Geographic magazine... More »
Bob Krist
National Geographic photographer Bob Krist has shot several articles for National Geographic magazine and more than 30 articles for National Geographic Traveler, where he is a contributing editor. His many assignments have taken him to all seven continents and his images have won awards in the Pictures of the Year, Communication Arts, and World Press Photo competitions... More »
Louise Leakey
Paleontologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Louise Leakey has continued the historic legacy begun by her grandfather Louis S. B... More »
Mireya Mayor
National Geographic Emerging Explorer Mireya Mayor is a primatologist and conservationist reporting on wildlife issues for more than a decade. As a correspondent on National Geographic’s Ultimate Explorer television series, she has gone underwater with six-foot-long Humboldt squids, tracked gorillas in Central Africa, and worked with leopards in Namibia... More »
Ronald Messier
Ronald Messier is professor emeritus at Middle Tennessee State University and former adjunct professor and senior lecturer at Vanderbilt University, where he taught Islamic history and historical archaeology. He received three National Geographic research grants to direct the excavation of the ancient city of Sijilmasa in Morocco, famous for its gold trade and its contacts with Timbuktu... More »
Chris Rainier
Chris Rainier is considered one of the leading documentary photographers working today. A National Geographic Society Fellow, Chris is a director of the National Geographic All Roads Photography Program and a co-director of the NG Enduring Voices Project, documenting endangered languages and cultures... More »
Johan Reinhard
Johan Reinhard, an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society, is a high-altitude archaeologist. Johan recovered the Ice Maiden, an Inca mummy on Peru's Mount Ampato, a discovery chosen by Time magazine as one of the world's ten most important of 1995... More »
Enric Sala
Dr. Enric Sala is a marine ecologist who fell in love with the sea growing up on the Mediterranean coast of Spain... More »
David Silverberg
David Scott Silverberg is an exploration geographer working on conservation projects spanning six continents. His mix of exploration, research, and digital photo-video storytelling has been popular with National Geographic travelers for many years... More »
Christopher Sloan
Christopher Sloan is an award-winning author and art director who specializes in bringing non-visual scientific research to life for diverse audiences. Christopher worked with National Geographic magazine from 1992 to 2010 as Art Director, Senior Editor, and Director of Mission Projects... More »
Derek Solomon
Derek Solomon has been leading special interest safaris in southern Africa for more than 15 years. Originally based in Harare, Zimbabwe, he has led safaris to destinations in Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, and South Africa... More »
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