Brien Adrien Meilleur
Public Garden Administration and Plant Conservation
Member since: 1997
Beginning his professional career as Manager of the Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden in Captain Cook, Hawai`i in 1987, Brien moved on to serve as President and Executive Director for the Center for Plant Conservation, headquartered then at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis from 1993 to 2000.
Since that time, he has held several Affiliate academic appointments with the Departments of Anthropology at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa, University of Missouri at St. Louis, and most recently at the University of Washington, in Seattle.
On the international front, Brien has been a Correspondant du Museum of the French National Museum in Paris since 1988, as well as still serving as an associate member of Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) research team UMR 7206.
Brien has served on several advisory committees, including The Plant Conservation Committee, Species Survival Commission, IUCN (The World Conservation Union); The Expert Environmental Panel for "Agriculture, Trade, and the Environment" Office of Technology Assessment, Congress of the United States in Washington DC; The Regional Advisory Council New England Plant Conservation Program; and Chair of The Plant Conservation Committee, American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta.
From 1996 to 2003, Brien served as a consultant with numerous agencies: The National Endowment for the Humanities; The European Union; Bioversity International (ex-IPBGR); and the Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN.
In 2011-2012, he received grants from the Vanoise National Park and the Rhone-Alpes Region of France to study traditional irrigation in the northern French Alps and published (in French), À Ciel Ouvert: Les canaux d'irrigation en pays de Vanoise, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2017, 305 pages. His most recent publications have appeared in the Journal of the Polynesian Society (2019) and la Revue d'Ethnoécologie (in press), both in English, and with his co-authors, he is currently reediting Hawaiian Breadfruit for publication by the University of Hawai`i Press. He currently divides his time between Seattle, Washington and Chambery, France.
Member since 1997.
