The keynote speaker for the Breslauer Symposium will be Dr. Marshall Murphree, Professor Emeritus from the Centre for Applied Social Sciences at the University of Zimbabwe. A prominent scholar in the fields of common property theory, rural development, and natural resource management, Dr. Murphree graduated from the London School of Economics with a doctorate in social anthropology. He then returned to his home country of Zimbabwe to work as a missionary before joining the University of Zimbabwe. From 1970 to 1996, he was director of the Centre for Applied Social Sciences, a department with special responsibility for teaching and research in the social and institutional dimensions of natural resource management. In 1989 he joined the board of Zimbabwe's Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management, and from 1991-1995 he chaired the Zimbabwean Parks and Wildlife Board. In 1994, he became the inaugural chair of the Sustainable Use Specialist Group of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), a position which he holds to this day. He is the author of over 60 monographs and articles on rural development and natural resource management, and recently coedited the important volume African Wildlife & Livelihoods: The Promise and Performance of Community Conservation.