People & positions

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2010:
Peter Davies, previously director general of the Royal SPCA
and then of the World Society for the Protection of Animals, was on
August 16, 2010 named chair of the management committee of the
Marjan Centre for the Study of Conflict & Conservation, a project of
the War Studies department at King’s College, London. The Marjan
Centre is headed by longtime King’s College faculty member Michael
Rainsborough.
Dori Villalon joined the American Humane Association in June
2010 as vice president for animal protection. Villalon was
previously vice president of the San Francisco SPCA, after heading
Sonoma County Animal Care & Control, the Cleveland Animal Protection
League, and the Larimer Humane Society .

Rick Sinott, 60, retired in July 2010 after 28 years as
Anchorage area biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish & Game.
Sinott became nationally known as an advocate for urban wildlife and
as an outspoken critic of human practices that lead to wildlife
becoming problematic.
Ed Boks, previously animal control director in Maricopa
County, Arizona, New York City, and Los Angeles, was on June 17,
2010 named executive director of the Yavapai Humane Society in
Prescott, Arizona.