Richard Wiese is a world-class explorer, the longest-serving President of The Explorers Club (EC) and Executive Producer and Host of ABC and PBS multiple Emmy-winning program, Born to Explore.



As President of The Explorers Club he developed and negotiated multi-year partnerships with Rolex, Microsoft and Discovery to name a few. Discovery’s is EC’s first multi-million dollar grant program. During his tenure he established the first annual Global Exploration Summit in partnership with Portugal, often referred to as the Davos of Exploration. He is the founder of The Explorers Club 50 - “Fifty people who are changing the world, that the world needs to know about”, as well as the organization’s first Diversity and Inclusion program. He appointed the EC first African American Woman board director, and the first woman Chair of Ethics & Governance. He organized the first symposium for LGQT in Exploration. He also negotiated a three-book deal with Crowne/Random House.



As a journalist, he has received numerous honors, including 14 Day-Time Emmy Nominations ( 2 wins), a Genesis Award, an Associated Press Folio Award, the Walter Cronkite Award and a Golden Halo Advertising Award for Best Environmental/Wildlife Campaign.



Wiese has traveled to all seven continents. He has tagged jaguars in the Yucatan jungles, led an expedition to the Northern Territory of Australia to probe the Aboriginal myth of the Rainbow Serpent, co-discovered 202 new forms of life in the first microbial survey of Central Park in NYC, and founded the Central Park “Bio Blitz”: 24 hour, cataloging of all life forms in the park. He was a team member of the largest medical expedition ever conducted on Mt. Everest, achieved the first ascent of an unclimbed mountain in Alaska, discovered 29 new life forms on Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa, and cross country skied to the North Pole. In the hottest place on earth Ethiopia and attempted to extract fragments of DNA from molten lava to look for evidence of microbial life in conditions never thought able to support life. In 2006 the American Museum of Natural History Expeditions named Wiese an Explorer in residence. He was honored at the 2005 Boy Scout National Jamboree, where he addressed 90,000 people and had a camp named after him. By invitation of King Mohammad VI, he was the U.S. representative to the Moussem de Tan Tan, a gathering of 45,000 nomadic Arabs in Morocco, and he received a Special lifetime achievement award by the Science Museum of Long Island.



Wiese's father Richard Wiese Sr, was the first to solo the Pacific Ocean in an airplane.

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