Seligmann (born September 30, 1950) is an American conservationist and nonprofit founder.
Seligmann is chairman of Conservation International, an Arlington, Virginia-based environmental nonprofit organization, and from 1987 to 2017 served as its founding chief executive officer.
He is also the founding CEO of Nia Tero, a global collaborative with a mission to advance indigenous peoples and local community stewardship of vital ecosystems around the world whose name translates in Esperanto to "our Earth."
Seligmann is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School; a director at First Eagle Holdings, formerly Arnhold and S.
Bleichroeder Holdings Inc.; and the Mulago Foundation.
He has served as a member of The Coca-Cola Company's International Public Policy Advisory Board and as an advisor to the Jackson Hole Land Trust.
On July 20, 2000, President Bill Clinton appointed Seligmann to the Enterprise for the Americas Board.