Professor Priya Davidar

Pondicherry University

Priya Davidar is a Professor of Ecology and former Dean of the School of Life Sciences at Pondicherry University, India. Her scientific interests are plant-animal interaction, large scale patterns of species distribution, and the design of protected areas. She is a member of various committees involving wildlife conservation policy issues in India. She participates in advocacy networks for biodiversity conservation. Her Ph. D. was from Bombay University under the supervision of the late Dr. Salim Ali, and has an additional Master’s degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. She was a postdoctoral fellow and Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. She served as the President of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) in 2009.