EDUCATION

Dourojeanni is a graduate in agriculture (ingeniero agrónomo, 1963) and in forestry (ingeniero forestal, 1965) from the Universidad Nacional Agraria of La Molina (Lima, Peru) and a Doctor of Sciences (1971) from the Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques de L’Etat (Gembloux, Belgium). He received additional training at the Utah State University and Cornell University (USA) and at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Peru).

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

He has been on the staff of the Universidad Nacional Agraria from 1964 to 1988. He attained full professorship in 1972. His responsibilities at the University included: Chief of the Forest Resources Department in the Forestry Research Institute (1965-68), Chief of the Forest Management Department (1966-68), University Director (Chancellor) for Planning and Budget (1972-73), Dean of the Faculty of Forest Sciences (1979-84) and, Head of the Forestry Research Program of the University.  He also served as Academic Vice-Rector of the Universidad San Martin de Porres (Lima, Peru) and as Professor of Ecology and National Defense at the High Military Studies Center of Peru (1975-88).  Dourojeanni was the first Peruvian professor of wildlife management, forest entomology and protected areas management.

In 1984 and 1985 he accepted an invitation to be Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Forestry of the University of Toronto (Canada). He offered over fifty lectures in universities of the Americas, Europe and Africa, including Yale, Colorado State University, MIT, Princeton, Duke, American University, George Washington University, Toronto, New Brunswick, Vancouver, Louvain, Gent, Gembloux, San Marcos, São Paulo, Dakar, etc.

GOVERNMENTAL ACTIVITIES

From 1973 to 1979 he has been Director General of Forestry and Wildlife, in the Ministry of Agriculture of Peru, with responsibility on forest resources, forest industry, land use, national parks, wildlife and research.  During his period as Director General all legislation on natural renewable resources was reviewed and modernized and, most existing protected areas (Huascaran, Machu Picchu, Pacaya-Samiria, Abiseo, Paracas, Titicaca, Manu, etc.) were established as well as some of the most successful and still on going wildlife management programs, such as those for vicuna and primates.

He also served as a corporate Director of the National Institute for Agricultural Research, the Public Enterprise for Agriculture Services and the Park Service of Peru, among other public responsibilities. During four years he chaired the Tribunal de Procesos Administrativos of the Ministry of Agriculture. From 1980 to 1988 he was a member of several commissions of the National Council for Science and Technology and, from 1985 to 1988 he has also been an active scientific advisor to the Peruvian Congress.

NON-GOVERMENTAL ACTIVITIES IN PERU

Dourojeanni served as President and Vice-President of the Entomological Society of Peru, Vice-President of his University Professor’s Association, member of the Board of the Colegio de Ingenieros del Peru, Vice-President of the Peruvian Forestry Association, among many other positions in twelve other scientific and professional organizations.  In 1984, he founded and was the first President (until 1988) of the Fundación Peruana para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (FPCN, now called ProNaturaleza), the most successful environmental private organization of Peru. He was re-elected (2003-2006) President of ProNaturaleza and he has also been a member of the board of Funatura, a Brazilian foundation specialized in the Cerrado region. Currently he is still a member of the board of ProNaturaleza and also of the Associacao Civil O Eco (Brazil), a major environmental journalism organization.

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN NGOs AND SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS

In the international scene he has been closely associated to the World Conservation Union (IUCN) since 1972. He was elected on three occasions to the Council of the IUCN. In his third term he was also elected Vice-President of the Union (1984-88). He has been Vice-President and Deputy Chairman of the World Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas (WCPA) and a member of several IUCN commissions and working groups. Among other ad honorem international positions he has been: Chairman of the FAO Committee on Tropical Forests; Vice-President of the International Association of Tropical Foresters; President of the International Commission for the Conservation of the Amazon Biota (Amazon Cooperation Treaty); Chairman of the IICA-Tropics Program; member of the Advisory Board of the Yale Tropical Institute and of the Center for Tropical Conservation of the Duke University; member of the Scientific Council of Funatura (Brazil); member of the MAB/Smithsonian Institution Program, etc. He has also been for over a decade a member of the Board of the World Resources Institute, in Washington.

INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

From 1977 to 1988 Dourojeanni served as occasional short and midterm consultant, on natural resources policy, forestry, protected areas and wildlife management, mostly for FAO (as team leader in Paraguay and Venezuela) and The World Bank (mostly Brazil), among other international and bilateral agencies. His services were usually required in Latin America but also in Africa (Cameroun, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Senegal, etc.) and Asia (Malaysia, Nepal, Indonesia, etc.). In early 1988 he moved to Washington, as senior advisor in environmental affairs at The World Bank.

In January 1990 he became the first Chief of the newly created Environment Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). His task has been to organize the Division, establish and apply environmental procedures and, especially, to increase the activities of the Bank in the field of environment. In 1995 he moved to Brasilia, Brazil, as Bank`s Principal Environmental Advisor. He retired in early 2003.

After retirement he became consultant, especially for the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) developing missions (team leader) in countries of Africa (Ghana, Togo and Congo), Asia (Indonesia in several occasions, Philippines and Cambodia) and Latin America (Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama and Peru).

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION

Since 1960 still being a student and until 1972 he dedicated most of his research to forest entomology, with emphasis on bark, ambrosia and long-horned beetles, termites and, other forest insects in the Amazon and in Belgium. Since 1965 he initiated works related to wildlife management (vicuna, waterfowl, game used as food in the Amazon) and to protected areas (Manu, Huascaran, Paracas, Junin, Titicaca, Machu Picchu). Later, his research became more related to natural resources policy, especially as related to the Amazon.

He is the author of 13 books: “Catalogue Raisonné des Scolytidae et Platypodidae de Belgique” (Brussels, 1971), “Parques Nacionales del Perú” (Madrid, 1977), “Renewable Natural Resources of Latin America and the Caribbean” (Washington, DC, 1980 and Lima, 1982, 1987), “El Manejo de la Fauna en el Perú” (Barcelona, 1986), “Recursos Naturales, Desarrollo y Conservación en el Perú” (Barcelona, 1986), “Si el Arbol de la Quina Hablara” (Lima, 1987), “Amazonia: Qué Hacer” (Iquitos, 1990), “Biodiversidade, A Hora Decisiva” (Curitiba, 2001, 2008); “Construindo o futuro do Pantanal”(Rio de Janeiro,    2006); “Gestión de Áreas Protegidas para la Conservación de la Biodiversidad: Evidencias de Brasil, Honduras y Perú” (Washington, DC, 2006); “Estudio de caso sobre la Carretera Interoceánica en la Amazonía del Perú”(Lima, 2006); “Crónica Forestal del Perú”  (Lima, 2009) and “Amazonía Peruana en 2021: Explotación de Recursos Naturales e Infraestructura”  (Lima, 2010).

He also published several book chapters and some 360 scientific and policy discussion papers and around 500 texts for newspapers, magazines and websites. He has been editor of the “Gran Geografía del Perú”(Barcelona, 1986) and editor of several scientific publications, such as Agronomia, the Revista Forestal del Peru and the Revista Peruana de Entomología.

HONORS

He was awarded with the Guggenheim fellowship (1984/1985) and became Honorary Member of the Society of American Foresters in 1987. Dourojeanni also received the 1987 Environmental Prize of the Banco Continental del Perú and the Diploma al Merito Forestal del Perú (1987), among other honors. In 2008 he became Emeritus Professor of the Universidad Nacional Agraria de La Molina (Peru).

His services were also recognized in Peru and abroad with the Orden al Mérito Agrícola del Perú (Great Officer), the Orden al Mérito de la Guardia Civil del Perú (Commander) and, the Golden Arch Order of Holland (Rider).