Wander Meijer

Executive Director, Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden

Wander is a senior executive with over 30 years of leadership experience across businesses and NGOs in Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Wander has led Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG) since November 2021, where he and his team of 300 staff work on nature conservation, holistic education and sustainable living with the mission to restore harmony between humans and nature.

KFBG has the vision to bring biodiversity back to Hong Kong and Asia, via nature restoration, its Native Tree Nursery and Wild Animal Rescue Centre, which has accepted more than 76,000 wild animals since it was opened in 1994.

Wander also advises and invests in social enterprises, focused on poverty alleviation and agricultural transition. He mentors students on career choices and regularly speaks at schools, universities, corporations and NGOs on biodiversity and sustainability.

With a master's degree in Human Geography and Economic Development, his thesis, conducted in Bolivia, explored the question: “Why are some countries rich and others poor?” This led him to pursue a lifelong enquiry into how economic systems and human behaviour can be reshaped to live within the planet's ecological limits.

Wander has been living in Hong Kong since 1998 with an intermezzo of 4 years in Buenos Aires.

Source: Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden