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Curiosity Expert: Wayne Pacelle
President and Chief Executive Officer, The Humane Society of the United States
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As President and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), Wayne Pacelle leads the nation's largest animal protection organization with 11 million members and constituents. The organization is one of the top 200 charities in the United States, as measured by income and expenditures. During his tenure, Pacelle has nearly doubled the size of the organization and, through corporate combinations with groups such as The Fund for Animals and the Doris Day Animal League, built unity and greater efficiency within the animal protection cause. He has led successful efforts to pass hundreds of new state and federal laws to protect animals, expanded The HSUS's animal care operations, and worked with dozens of corporations to enact operational changes that benefit animals. Pacelle was named one of NonProfit Times' "Executives of the Year" in 2005 for his leadership in responding to the Hurricane Katrina crisis. In both 2008 and 2009, NonProfit Times named Pacelle to its annual "Power and Influence Top 50" nonprofit executives. In 2008, the National Italian American Foundation presented Pacelle with the Special Achievement Award in Humanitarian Service. Pacelle is the author of The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them, published in April 2011 by Harper Collins. "The Bond" is a New York Times bestseller, and it has appeared on other best-seller lists throughout the nation. He graduated from Yale University in 1987. He currently lives in Washington, D.C.
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