Tariq Stéevart

Tariq Stévart (Belgian) is Director of the Africa and Madagascar Department of the Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG, USA). He is permanently based at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and at the Meise Botanic Garden in Belgium, but travels extensively in West and Central Africa, and in Madagascar. Stévart is a plant taxonomist by training, focusing his research on the orchid family, while also conducting scientific and conservation projects devoted to the tropical African and Malagasy floras.