Professor Clive D. L. Wynne, Ph.D.
Clive Wynne hails from the UK and has lived and worked in Germany and Australia in addition
to the United States where he is now based. Before he found a way to combine his childhood
fascination with dogs with his day job as a psychology professor, he studied the behavior of
animals ranging from pigeons to dunnarts (a mouse-sized marsupial) in the UK, the US,
Germany and Australia. Wynne has travelled the world examining the diverse lives dogs lead. He
is one of very few people who has been up close with dingoes in Australia, hunting with native
Mayangna people and their dogs in Nicaragua, and visited archaeological sites where early dogs
were found buried with their people in Europe and Israel. Wynne melds his wide personal
experience with dogs and wolves with a deep professional involvement in the science of canids.
His primary area of research is the behavior and cognition of dogs in interaction with humans,
but he has also published on canine genetics and collaborates with archaeologists and
anthropologists in understanding the origin of dogs. Wynne is the author of more than 100
peer-reviewed scientific journal articles, including in some of the most important outlets such as
Nature magazine. His research has been very highly cited–in particular his work on the nature of
the cognitive differences and similarities between dogs and wolves. His research papers count
among the most highly-cited studies on dog psychology. He is the author of a textbook, now in
its third edition, Animal Cognition, and Do Animals Think? (Princeton University Press 2004), an
academic book on animal intelligence. His first trade title, Dog is Love: Why and How Your Dog
Loves You (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019) has been translated into 14 languages. In addition
to his extensive contributions to the scientific literature, Wynne has authored pieces in
Psychology Today, New Scientist, the New York Times, the Washington Post, among others. His
research is also regularly featured in many news media, and he is often called on to offer an
opinion on the latest findings. He has appeared in several television documentaries about dogs on
CBC, PBS, BBC, Netflix among others.

Dr. Alexandra (Sasha) Protopopova, PhD, CAAB,
Sasha is an associate professor in the Animal Welfare Program at the University of British Columbia. Her research aims are to learn more about dogs, improve animal shelter practices, improve companion animal welfare in shelters, pet homes, and in assistance roles – all within a One Welfare framework. She spends her days conducting research, teaching university classes in animal learning and animal sheltering, flying in acroyoga, and cuddling dogs.