Dr. Cheng Chen
Program Director, Nature Watch Program, Shan Shui Conservation Center
PhD on ecology in Chinese Academy of China
Post Doc in Life Science School, Peking University
Dr. Cheng Chen is Program Director of the Nature Watch Program, in Shan Shui Conservation Center. Her main focus is about wildlife conservation and biodiversity mainstreaming.
She is in charge of the China Nature Watch Program of Shan Shui Conservation Center since 2019, focusing on and dedicated to promoting the mainstreaming of biodiversity conservation in planning, investment, environmental assessment, and corporate behavior through multiple perspectives including biodiversity database, technological empowerment, scientific research, and policy advocacy, to protect biodiversity sensitive areas from economic development. She is specially focusing on synergizing the renewable energy development with biodiversity conservation in the context of energy transition.
She has a background of wildlife conservation biology, and has been engaged in the conservation of snub-nosed monkeys and snow leopards since 2008, working on the molecular ecology of Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys, as well as the landscape conservation of snow leopards and wildlife genetics monitoring in the Sanjiangyuan Region. She has been deeply involved in and coordinated the promotion of the development of China's Snow Leopard Conservation Network since 2015.