Experts by Destination: Around the World
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 »
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 »
Jack Daulton
Jack Daulton is an acclaimed lecturer on the art history of non-Western civilizations and has been a study leader on trips to more than 50 countries throughout the world. His academic work has included extensive study of the art and architecture of Asia and Africa, as well as of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam... 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 »
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 »
Annie Griffiths
Annie Griffiths Belt has produced dozens of magazine and book projects for the National Geographic Society. She has received awards from the White House News Photographers Association and the National Press Photographers Association for her work, which includes landscape, portrait, and documentary photography... 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 »
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 »
Paula Swart
Paula Swart is an expert on Asian culture and history, and has been a museum curator for more than 20 years. Her travels have taken her to Vietnam and Cambodia numerous times, including a rail journey that she led from Beijing to Hanoi in 1994... More »
Spencer Wells
Geneticist, anthropologist, and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Spencer Wells has analyzed the DNA of thousands of people living in isolated tribes around the world. He leads the Genographic Project, a multi-year endeavor to chart the journey of our early ancestors as they populated the planet... More »
