The brilliant Dr Asha De Vos is a Marine biologist, ocean educator, pioneer of blue whale research within the Indian Ocean, and a TED Senior Fellow. She famously coined the term ‘The Unorthodox Whale’ based on her many years of research on blue whales around Sri Lankan waters, and first presented the concept of ‘the Unorthodox Whale’ to the world at the TED2012 conference in California.
Born and raised in Sri Lanka, De Vos grew up with a fascinat...