Dr. Katy Williams
South africa
Research and Conservation Director, Cape Leopard Trust
Katy is a conservation biologist with a passion for carnivores and using creative approaches to stimulate conservation knowledge and positive action. She has over 10 years’ experience working with carnivores and mitigating human-wildlife conflict in southern Africa. From 2011 to 2016 Katy managed the Primate and Predator Project in South Africa while also completing an interdisciplinary PhD with Durham University (UK) focused on brown hyenas. Since then she has completed two postdoctoral researcher positions examining bycatch camera trap data of brown hyenas in partnership with Panthera. She has recently joined the Cape Leopard Trust team as the Research and Conservation Director and is based in the Western Cape, South Africa.