Dan and the NUS Mangrove Lab research mangrove forests in Singapore and Southeast Asia, particularly the benefits and ecosystem services they provide to people, the threats they face, and how to use ecosystem services to conserve and restore them.

Dan is also a Lead Principal Investigator for the Natural Capital Singapore project, conducting the nation's first national-scale ecosystem services assessment. For more information, see www.themangrovelab.com.

Dr Sonja Luz is currently the Director for Conservation, Research & Veterinary Services at Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS). WRS is the operator of Jurong Bird Park, Night Safari, River Safari and Singapore Zoo.

Her work focuses on wildlife health and conservation issues of the ASEAN region, complementing her personal interest and expertise which resides in Conservation of Southeast Asian species and habitats, Zoo- and Wildlife medicine; Animal welfare; Strategic conservation planning and conservation capacity building.

Dr Luz is a governing council member of the IUCN Asian Species Action Partnership and a Co-convener of the Conservation Planning Specialist Group SEA Resource Center, both hosted by WRS.

She is also a member of several IUCN Species Survival Specialist Groups (i.e. Pangolin, Python & Boa, and Translocation Specialist Groups) and the Chair of the SEAZA Conservation Committee and Singapore Pangolin Working Group.

Andie pursued her M.Sc. at the National University of Singapore studying the ecology of critically endangered Raffles’ banded langurs, before completing her Ph.D. at the University of Colorado Boulder working on the conservation of leaf monkeys in Vietnam. She is currently a research scientist with Wildlife Reserves Singapore Conservation Fund and the chairperson of the Raffles’ Banded Langur Working Group. She is also a scientist for Red-List Assessments for Asian primates in the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group. Andie has served as the President of the Jane Goodall Institute (Singapore) since 2018, overseeing outreach and capacity-building programmes which aim at promoting greater awareness and protection of nature and wildlife.

Andie has over 10 years of field experience studying wild primates in Southeast Asia and continues to work closely with various government and non-government agencies in Singapore and the region, particularly Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam for the long-term research and conservation of endangered species. Andie is the founder of Primate Watching online resource which aims to share information on where to see each and every species of primates in the world.

For her research and conservation work, Andie received support from a number of sources including the Wildlife Reserves Singapore Conservation Fund, National Geographic Grant, Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund, and Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) Grant for the Environment. She has also received recognition for her achievements from the American Society of Primatologists (2019 – Conservationist Award), Singapore Women’s Weekly (2019 - The Great Women of Our Time Award for Science and Technology), Singapore Tatler (2018 – Generation T Honouree), and Prestige (2018 – 40 under 40).