Tanya Rosen

Director of Central Asian Programs

Tanya Rosen joined Conservation X Labs in February 2023 as Director of Central Asian Programs. In this role she will continue to build collaborations to advance conservation of imperiled wildlife in the region by strengthening local and regional capacity to effectively protect it and addressing the threats it faces, including by harnessing the technology CXL is developing. 

Between 2021-2023, Tanya was based in the Caucasus as Conservation Adviser for the Caucasus Nature Fund (CNF), where she provided technical and scientific support to protected areas in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan and co-led the the development of the Regional Strategy for the Conservation of the Persian Leopard in the frame of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) Central Asia Mammals Initiative. She will continue to provide advice to CNF. 

Prior to that, Tanya lived and worked in Central Asia for 12 years, leading snow leopard and Persian leopard conservation programs, among them: as co-founder of the Ilbirs Foundation in Kyrgyzstan; lead of Team Bars Turkmenistan and technical adviser for the UN Environment Programme for the "Vanishing Treasures” and IKI CAMCA project in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan.

Before leap into conservation, she was an international lawyer working in US and Europe.

Tanya holds degrees (JD and LL.M) in international law from Università Statale di Milano and Harvard Law School and wildlife ecology (MSc) from Yale University and Bard College.

She is member of the  IUCN Cat Specialist Group, vice chair (North Eurasia) for the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, National Geographic Explorer, and CMS CAMI focal point for snow leopard. Most importantly she walks this life with a beloved daughter, 2 Central Asia sighthounds, a Turkmen horse and a big Central Asia family.