Kathy Traylor-Holzer, Senior Program Officer

B.S., Biology/Psychology, College of William and Mary, 1980
M.S., Psychology, North Dakota State University, 1982
Pre-Doc., Primate Foundation of Arizona, 1982-1983
Ph.D., Conservation Biology, University of Minnesota, 2003

Kathy Traylor-Holzer is a Senior Program Officer for the IUCN SSC Conservation Planning Specialist Group (CPSG). After graduate school she spent 18 years working at the Minnesota Zoo in research and conservation, has served as the studbook keeper and population advisor for the AZA Tiger SSP since 1991, and provides ex situ population management advice to regional and global programs for tigers, giant pandas and other species. In 2002 Kathy joined the CPSG staff and has served as a facilitator or population modeler for ~300 species at conservation planning workshops on six continents. She is a co-author of the IUCN Guidelines for the Use of Ex Situ Management for Species Conservation and specializes in population modeling and other tools for the integration of in situ and ex situ conservation activities. She also has served as an instructor for training in conservation planning, modeling and population management skills.

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