Hall Healy is Chair of Audubon National Society’s Midwest Regional Advisory Board and Emeritus Director and past Board Chair of the International Crane Foundation, a non-governmental organization dedicated to preserving the fifteen species of cranes and their habitats, and enhancing the lives of people residing near them, on five continents. As a professional environmental facilitator and consultant, he has conducted training, facilitation and planning projects in the US, Russia, China and South Korea. He has helped establish conservation partnerships in the US, and in Russia at Lake Baikal. He is the former president of the DMZ Forum, an NGO dedicated to preserving species and habitats in Korea’s Demilitarized Zone. During his marketing, management and planning career in the steel, packaging and environmental engineering businesses, and as an independent consultant, Mr. Healy facilitated numerous strategic planning activities for Fortune 500 and other companies, watershed management groups, and non-profit organizations.
Mr. Healy has visited with officials of the Pisan Farm Cooperative in Anbyon Plain, near the port of Wonsan in southeastern DPRK, to help implement one of the International Crane Foundation’s projects to protect the endangered Red-crowned Crane (Grus japonensis). The Anbyon project’s purpose was to increase food production by training leaders and farmers in organic farming techniques, to encourage wild cranes to return to the area, and to protect and enhance local biodiversity. Mr. Healy has met with North Korean officials and scientists regarding the Anbyon project and about the prospects of maintaining the DMZ as a protected area, and has written articles on DMZ conservation and its ecosystem services potential.
Mr. Healy earned a BA degree in Political Science from Colgate University and an MBA from the University of Chicago, Executive Program. Among publications on planning and conservation issues, he has written “Environmental Management” for the American Management Association’s Manufacturers Handbook and co-authored Packaging and Solid Waste. He is an emeritus director of the Board of Trustees of The Nature Conservancy, Illinois Chapter; and is on the Governing Board of the Chicago Zoological Society. He is a past member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Task Force on Transboundary Protected Areas, and of the IUCN Crane Specialist Group.