Mark Duda

Mark Damian Duda is the founder and executive director of Responsive Management. He has led Responsive Management since the firm’s inception in 1990. Mark holds a master’s degree with an emphasis on natural resource policy and planning from Yale University, where he attended on two academic scholarships. Mark has conducted more than 1,000 studies on how people relate to the outdoors. He is the author of four books on wildlife and outdoor recreation, including The Sportsman’s Voice: Hunting and Fishing in America and Watching Wildlife.

Mark is a Certified Wildlife Biologist® whose research has been upheld in U.S. District Courts, used in peer-reviewed journals, and presented at major natural resource and outdoor recreation conferences around the world. His work has been featured in many of the nation’s top media, including NPR’s Morning Edition, CNN, The New York Times, Newsweek, and the front pages of The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and USA Today. For seven years, Mark served as a columnist for North American Hunter and North American Fisherman magazines.

Mark has been named Conservation Educator of the Year by the Florida Wildlife Federation and National Wildlife Federation, was a recipient of the Conservation Achievement Award from the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, and was named Wildlife Professional of the Year by the Virginia Wildlife Society. He also received the Conservation Achievement Award in Communications from Ducks Unlimited and an award from the Potomac Ducks Unlimited Chapter for his contributions as a researcher and writer. Mark was also honored as Qualitative Researcher of the Year by the National Shooting Sports Foundation and received the 2016 Distinguished Leadership Award from the National Rifle Association. Mark is an avid hunter, sport shooter, angler, boater, and birdwatcher.