Biography
Academic and conservation work
Garrod is a proud alumnus of Anglia Ruskin University, where he completed his BSc (Hons) in Animal Behaviour in 2005. Garrod completed a doctorate at University College London and the Zoological Society of London. His thesis focused on the evolution of monkeys in tropical islands and was titled "Primates of the Caribbean". He has published on primate pathology and osteoarchaeology.
Garrod has lived and worked all over the world, particularly working on great ape conservation. He spent several years in western Uganda working on the development and management of a leading field site for chimpanzee conservation with the Jane Goodall Institute, where among other things he was responsible for habituating wild chimpanzees. He has also worked in Southeast Asia for an orangutan conservation organisation, in Madagascar studying marine life, and in the Caribbean studying introduced monkeys.
Garrod's institutional affiliations include being a Trustee for the UK