Dr Nisha OWEN

Director of Conservation, On the EDGE Conservation

Dr. Nisha Owen is leading the development and implementation of the themes of conservation and science at On the EDGE Conservation. She also chairs the IUCN SSC Phylogenetic Diversity Task Force.

Previously, Nisha worked at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), developing the EDGE of Existence programme into its current incarnation as a ZSL flagship, as well as developing innovative online capacity building initiatives with United for Wildlife and National Geographic Society.

She holds a PhD from the University of Leeds on human-wildlife conflict in south India, and her global and diverse conservation career spans two decades of implementation, management and oversight of a variety of conservation projects and interventions, and the training and capacity building of early and mid career conservationists.