Board of Directors

Francisco is an Associate Lecturer in Sustainability at the School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania.

Ans is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the School of Population Health, Curtin University (Australia). She is interested in the human well-being dimensions of environmental change.

Steph is a Lecturer in Conservation Science at the University of Kent with interests in local ecological knowledge and rights-based approaches.

Tina is a social science researcher at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology studying the intersections of participatory sciences, nature, well-being, and conservation behaviors.

Sayan is an interdisciplinary conservation researcher, affiliated with the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, India. He works on conservation governance, human-wildlife interactions, conservation and development, gender, environment and development, majorly in India.

Rocío is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Bonn (Germany) with broad interests in human rights, coastal communities, and people’s relationships with nature.

Van is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Governance and Policy at the Wyss Academy for Nature, University of Bern, and Vice Director of People and Nature Reconciliation (PanNature), a Hanoi-based NGO focused on conservation and sustainable development.

Amemarlita is a Conservation Practitioner & Researcher, who works with local communities on the issues of livelihood, education, and sustainability. She also teaches at the Instituto Superior Politécnico de Manica

Jichuan Sheng is a Full Professor at the Business School, Hohai University (China). He is interested in the human dimensions of environmental change, specializing in Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), water governance, and market-based environmental instruments.

Saloni is a conservation anthropologist with an interest in multispecies coexistence and rights-based approaches to conservation. She is a Fellow at ATREE, India.

Bright is a Ph.D. Student in Development Studies at the Department of Global Development, Cornell University. She has a keen interest in modeling human wildlife interactions amidst climate change and development pressures.