Ambika Aiyadurai is an anthropologist of wildlife conservation with an interest in human-animal relations and community-based conservation. Ambika completed a PhD thesis in Anthropology from the National University of Singapore in 2016. She is trained in natural and social sciences with masters’ degrees in Wildlife Sciences from Wildlife Institute of India and Anthropology, Environment and Development from University College London funded by Ford Foundation.  In 2017, she was awarded the Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC) Transregional Research Junior Scholar Fellowship.  Her monograph “Tigers Are Our Brothers: Anthropology of Wildlife Conservation in Northeast India” was published by Oxford University Press, 2021. She has two co-edited volumes, Ecological Entanglements (Orient BlackSwan) and More than Just Footnotes (Bookwell Publications). She is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IITGN.