Ryan Anderson is a cultural and environmental anthropologist. His current research focuses on coastal conservation, sustainability, and development along the California coast (in Mexico and the US).

However, members of GradQ, the queer graduate student organization, criticized the speaker list–which included Robert Lopez, Kellie Fiedorek and Ryan Anderson–as inappropriately controversial.

Ryan Anderson, Ph.D., is a psychologist currently working as a Teaching Associate at Monash University. His research interests lie within the fields of evolutionary psychology and social psychology.