Dr. Kuenga Wangmo is an anthropologist and Bhutan’s first archaeologist. She has worked on sites in Bhutan, India, and the United States. She was a post-doc research fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and is passionate about the conservation of heritage and nature, and more recently in exploring the complex intersections between development and conservation. She has an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and post-graduate degrees from Cambridge University and The Courtauld Institute of Art. Kuenga is a National Geographic Explorer. Her research interests include, among others, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research practices, especially in climate change, disaster preparedness, and management, as well as environmental education and traditional ecological knowledge.