Dr Nikhil ADVANI

Director - Climate, Communities and Wildlife, World Wildlife Fund

Dr. Nikhil Advani's role at WWF is at the intersection of communities, wildlife and the varied threats they face, from climate change to the global Covid-19 pandemic. Most recently, he is leading a GEF project focused on how Covid-19 is affecting nature-based tourism in eastern and southern Africa, which seeks to connect funders to communities most affected by the crisis. Other projects under Nikhil's portfolio focus on better understanding how wildlife and rural communities are being affected by changes in weather and climate, and developing and implementing solutions to help them adapt. Nikhil is a member of the IUCN SSC Climate Change Specialist Group and in 2019 he was awarded the Emerging Leader Award by The College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin.

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