K.A.I. Nekaris OBE is a Professor of Primate Conservation and Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology in 2000 from Washington University, St Louis, and is the Course Tutor for the Primate Conservation program at Oxford Brookes, Director of the Little Fireface Project, and a member of the IUCN Primates Specialist group, where she is also the Vice Chair of the subsection for African and Asian nocturnal primates. She has won the Virginia McKenna Award for Compassionate Conservation and the Lawrence Jacobsen Prize for Primate Conservation and runs a long-term conservation project on slow lorises and other nocturnal animals in Java, Indonesia, called the Little Fireface Project. She is also a Convenor of the Nocturnal Primate Research Group and a member of the Ecology and Evolution Research Group and the Centre for Functional Genomics.