Dr Nisha Owen
Dr. Nisha Owen is the Chair of the IUCN SSC Phylogenetic Diversity Task Force and the Director of Conservation at On the Edge.
Dr. Nisha Owen is leading the development and implementation of the themes of conservation and science at On the Edge, and also sits on the Conservation Advisory Panel for World Land Trust, as well as serving as a Trustee of the London Learning Foundation.
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 leading award-winning online conservation courses with United for Wildlife and National Geographic Society.
She holds a MSc and PhD from the University of Leeds on human-wildlife conflict in south India, and her global and diverse conservation career spans two decades of research, implementation, management and oversight of a variety of conservation prioritisations, projects and interventions, particularly focused on Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered species; as well as the training and capacity building of early and mid-career conservationists.