Sandeep Kr Tiwari

India

Director & Chief of Conservation, Wildlife Trust of India

Email:sandeep@wti.org.in

A Wildlife biologist and conservationist, Dr Sandeep Kr Tiwari has been working on wildlife research and conservation for over three decades now. An active member of the IUCN Asian Elephant Transportation Expert Group, Dr Tiwari works as Director and Chief of Conservation at Wildlife Trust of India and specialize on Elephant ecology and behaviour, wildlife corridors, policy and human-wildlife conflict mitigation including linear infrastructures mitigation. He holds a PhD on the ecology and behaviour of Asian elephants.  He is member of various Government committees including the Steering Committee of Project Elephant, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Government of India. He is a member of IUCN SSC Asian Elephant Specialist Group, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Connectivity Conservation Network, IUCN WCPA-SSC Biodiversity and Protected Areas network and is the Co-Chair of the IUCN WCPA Asian Elephant Transport Working Group (AsETWG).