Meera is a founder trustee and Associate Director at Dakshin. She holds a doctoral degree in life sciences from the University of Technology, Sydney. At Dakshin Foundation, in her functional capacity, she heads the Conservation CrossRoads programme at Dakshin and contributes to institutional growth by coordinating research activities, and institutional development of the Andaman Nicobar Environment Team (ANET). Her current work focuses on incorporating insights from multiple disciplines to understand conflicts in natural resource governance and conservation. This includes the dynamics of human-saltwater crocodile conflict in the Andaman Islands as well as human-wildlife conflict involving free ranging vertebrates such as elephants and wild boar in India’s terrestrial systems. Meera’s expertise lies in applying heuristics, satisficing approaches and elements of bounded rationality to understand complex, uncertain systems involving multiple interacting components. Her current academic work also focuses on research at the interface of environmental history, anthropology and ecology, and their interactions in the context of longstanding traditional practices such as big game hunting.

Ph.D., University of Technology, Sydney

E-mail: meera.anna@gmail.com

For more, visit Meera’s web page.