Asha de Vos, Ph.D.

Dr. Asha de Vos ndi katswiri wa zamoyo zam'madzi wa ku Sri Lanka komanso mphunzitsi. Iye ndi Sri Lankan woyamba kupeza PhD m'munda wokhudzana ndi kafukufuku wa zinyama zam'madzi ndipo adayambitsa phunziro loyamba la nthawi yayitali pa blue whales ku Northern Indian Ocean. Iye wasindikiza mabuku angapo ofunikira ofufuza pa Sri Lankan blue whales, zomwe zapangitsa kuti chiwerengerochi chisankhidwe ngati zamoyo zomwe zikufunika mwachangu kufufuza kasamalidwe ka bungwe la International Whaling Commission (IWC). Ntchito yake yaupainiya idawonetsedwa padziko lonse lapansi ndi Channel 7 Australia, BBC, New York Times, CNN, WIRED UK, New Scientist, TED ndi Grist. Ndiwolemba mabulogu mlendo wa National Geographic. Asha ndi membala woitanidwa ku IUCN Species Survival Commission's Cetacean Specialist Group, TED Senior Fellow, Duke University Global Fellow in Marine Conservation ndi Young Global Leader wa World Economic Forum.