Dr Andie Ang focused on the ecology of critically endangered Raffles’ banded langurs for her MSc project at NUS. Her research expanded to Vietnamese leaf monkey conservation for her PhD program at the University of Colorado.

She is a research scientist with Mandai Nature and the chairperson of the Raffles’ Banded Langur Working Group (www.facebook.com/RBLWG). She is also Deputy Chair of the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group. She has served as President of the Jane Goodall Institute (Singapore) since 2018, overseeing outreach and capacity-building programmes to promote wildlife awareness.

Over the past decade, she studied wild primates in Southeast Asia and continues to work with government and non-government organizations in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam for long-term research and conservation of endangered species. She is also the founder of the Primate Watching online resource (www.primatewatching.com), which provides information about where to find every species of primates worldwide.

As part of her research and conservation work in Singapore, Andie received support from several sources, including the Wildlife Reserves Singapore Conservation Fund, Mandai Nature Fund, National Geographic Grant, Mohammed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund, and the Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) Grant for the Environment. Additionally, she has been recognized for her achievements by the American Society of Primatologists (2019 – Conservationist Award), Singapore Women’s Weekly (2019 – The Great Women of Our Time Award for Science and Technology), Singapore Tatler (2018 – The Generation T Honouree), and Prestige (2018 – The 40 Under 40).