Frans de Waal

Frans de Waal is a Dutch-born biologist who lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. One of the world’s best-known primatologists, de Waal is C. H. Candler Professor of Psychology and Director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University. He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. In 2007, Time selected him as one of the world’s 100 most influential people.