Roopa Krithivasan

Program Associate

Roopa specializes in conservation and land rights in South Asia. Currently, she works with the Conservation Science Program’s social science group to examine patterns, trends, causes, and implications of protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD).

Prior to this role, Roopa worked as a field assistant in Madagascar and a human-wolf conflict researcher in India. She has a Bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Chicago and a Master’s degree in environmental science from the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University.

Email: roopa.krithivasan@wwfus.org