Napo Pharmaceuticals

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Senior Management

Steven King, Ph.D.

Senior Vice President of Sustainable Supply, Ethnobotanical Research and Intellectual Property

Steven King joined Napo Pharmaceuticals in 2002. Prior thereto, he was with Shaman Pharmaceuticals in charge of international relations, field research, conservation and long term supply of plant material for all of Shaman's research and development activities. Prior to joining Shaman, Steven King worked as the Chief Botanist for Latin America for the Nature Conservancy in Washington D.C. Before joining the Nature Conservancy he worked at the National Academy of Sciences as part of the Committee on Managing Global Genetic Resources where he focused on managing the genetic resources of tree species. He earned his Ph.D. in biology as the first doctoral fellow of the Institute of Economic Botany of the New York Botanical Garden. Steven King has created and manages an extensive global network of government, academic and community based plant supply collaborators. He and his colleagues have been recognized by the international natural products and conservation community for the creation and dissemination of research on the long-term sustainable harvest and management of Croton lechleri, the widespread and abundant source of crofelemer.