Uyanga Ariya
Conservation Project Lead, Mongolia
Uyanga Ariya Conservation Project Lead © TNC
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Project Management, Research
Contact
Email: uyanga.ariya@tnc.orgBiography
Uyanga Ariya has been serving as the Conservation Project Lead since 2019. She initially joined The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in April 2017, taking on the role of Conservation Project Coordinator for the UNDP grant project.
Before her tenure at TNC, Uyanga accumulated valuable experience as a Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant at the Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Physiology, Okayama University in Japan, as well as at the Institute of Botany, Mongolian Academy of Sciences. She further contributed her expertise as a lecturer at both the Department of Forest Science, National University of Mongolia, and the Mongolian State University of Agriculture.
Uyanga holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Forest Science from the School of Biology and Biotechnology at the National University of Mongolia. She successfully earned her Ph.D. from the School of Environmental and Life Science at Okayama University, Japan, and pursued post-doctoral studies at the School of Engineering and Applied Science, National University of Mongolia, completing them in 2016.
Her dedication to academic and professional development is highlighted by her role as a research student at the Cumberland Laboratory of Forest Science, College of Arts and Sciences, Eastern Kentucky University, in Richmond, Kentucky, in 2009, and at the Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science at Okayama University in Japan in 2010.