Steven Monfort

Steven Monfort is the John and Adrienne Mars Director, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.

Monfort oversees the 163-acre facility in Rock Creek Park and the 3,200-acre SCBI campus in Front Royal, Virginia. He is responsible for the operations of the public Zoo in Washington, which has approximately 1.8 million visitors a year, and manages the Zoo’s groundbreaking conservation biology research team that works in more than 30 countries. Monfort also oversees educational programs, ticketed events and other services coordinated by Friends of the National Zoo, the Zoo’s non-profit partner.

Photo by Mehgan Murphy / Smithsonian National Zoo