Priya Davidar

Priya Davidar is an Indian scientific researcher, scholar and an author. Currently she is working as a professor at the Pondicherry University and conducts ecological research in different regions of India. She has authored a few books, including Whispers from the Wild, co-authored with E.R.C Davidar and published by Penguin India books. She was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012. She is actively involved with the conservation of forests and wildlife. She has published about 100 papers in scientific journals.

Family

Priya's father is a conservationist E.R.C. Davidar and brother Mark Davidar is one of the founders of the Sigur Nature Trust (SNT), in Masinagudi, Tamil Nadu, India which is a 30-acre wildlife reserve.

Education

She completed her B.Sc. in 1973 from Madras University and then moved on to get an M.Sc. in 1975 from the same university. In 1979 she was awarded a Ph.D. from Bombay University and later moved on to acquire a S.M. from Harvard University in 1985.

Honours/Awards

In 2009, she was the President of Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation.