Matt Rogan

Dr Matt Rogan, has spent a decade as a biodiversity data scientist tackling conservation from local to global scales. Matt has extensive experience working throughout East and Southern Africa from the banks of the Rufiji River in Tanzania to the Namib Desert. Early in his career, Matt investigated the impacts and drivers of bushmeat hunting on wildlife populations and communities around the Okavango Delta, Botswana. He then went on to earn a PhD with Panthera and iCWIld, using hierarchical models to assess the status and trends of leopard populations across South Africa. Before joining Natural State, Matt worked as a data curator with the Map of Life at Yale University, assembling and integrating data to understand global patterns of biodiversity. Matt holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cape Town, a M.E.M from Duke University and a B.A. from Pomona College. He is an Honorary Research Associate at SEEC.