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Confirmed SpeakersClick on the speakers' names below to view their biographies. A record number of speakers will participate in the 2010 Seafood Summit; the list below will be updated frequently. Seafood Summit Keynote Speaker - Dr. Daniel Pauly
In 1994, Dr. Pauly became a Professor at the University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre, and was its Director from 2003 to 2008. In 1999, Dr. Pauly founded, and since leads, a large research project devoted to identifying and quantifying global fisheries trends, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and called The Sea Around Us after Rachel Carson’s 1951 bestselling book. Dr. Pauly is also co-founder of Fishbase.org, the online encyclopedia of more than 30,000 fish species, and he has helped develop the widely-used Ecopath modeling software. He is the author or co-author of more than 500 scientific and other articles, books and book chapters on fish, fisheries and related topics. Two of news books, reflecting his current interests, will be published in 2010: “Five Easy Pieces: Reporting on the Global Impact of Fisheries” and “Gasping Fish and Panting Squids: Oxygen, Temperature and the Growth of Water-Breathing Animals”. Seafood Summit Speakers
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Eric Achard
ATLANTYS-Reynaud is a group of companies specialised in the French wholesale seafood market since 1924.Under Eric Achard’s leadership, ATLANTYS-Reynaud has built a new range of shellfish as early as 1992. Eric has boosted farmed cooked and chilled shrimps on the French traditional market, replacing a frozen and cooked wild caught shrimpon which ATLANTYS-Reynaud was not at that time a leading player. This market hasgrown from zero to more than 2.000 metric tons per annum in less than 5 years.In 2002, Eric decided to move ahead in becoming OSO’s Madagascan organic shrimp “launch customer” in France. At a time where both France and the EU did not have yet their organic regulations, Eric has embraced OSO’s vision creating a new era in the premium shrimp market place. From 2007, Eric and his team has worked very hard in replacing 100% of its conventional farmed Madagascan shrimp into 100% ORGANIC certified. Not only today that move was profitable, but with OSO Organic shrimps, ATLANTYS-Reynaud has become in 2010 the leader in Farmed shrimps traded out of Paris Rungis market with a volume of more than 600 metric tons per annum in a price positioning that puts OSO brand at the top end of the market
Eric is 43 years old, involved in the Seafood distribution for 2 decades.
Dr. David Agnew
Dr. Agnew is a Reader in Fisheries and Population Biology at Imperial College London. He has extensive experience in the conservation and management of marine resources. Dr. Agnew's technical expertise lies in fisheries assessment, statistical data analysis and modelling. He has a particular interest in the Southern Ocean, marine ecosystem and fisheries management worldwide, and enforcement solutions to combat Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported fishing. Dr. Agnew was appointed as the head of the Marine Stewardship Council’s Technical Advisory Board in May 2007, as part of this position he serves on the MSC Board of Trustees.
Tobias Aguirre
As Executive Director, Tobias sets the conservation vision and organizational strategy for FishWise. His work with retail industry executives, trade associations, and NGO leaders, seeks to build a collaborative approach to conservation that results in effective business and improved environmental performance. To that end, Tobias serves on both the Food Marketing Institute's Sustainable Seafood Working Group Advisory Council and the Steering Committee of the Conservation Alliance for Seafood Solutions. He also works to connect California fisherman and ports to investment capital as a Steering Committee member of the California Fisheries Fund. He is a frequent speaker at leading industry events, such as FMI's Sustainability Summit and the International Boston Seafood Show. Tobias holds degrees from Stanford University and UC San Diego’s School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, where he specialized in nonprofit management and business strategy and was named a Schoepflin Fellow for his work on sustainable fisheries.
Dr. Antonio García Allut
Dr. Antonio García Allut, from the LONXANET Foundation for Sustainable Fisheries, has a PHD in Social Anthropology and he is an associate at the University of A Coruña since 1992. He researches small-scale fisheries and takes a systemic and bottom-up approach. He was a research fellow at the Memorial of Newfoundland (Canada) in 2000 and has been studying the impact of the collapse of cod fisheries in artisanal fishing communities. Since 2001 he has been carrying out several projects aimed at promoting the sustainability of artisanal fisheries in Galicia (Spain) from the LONXANET Foundation (www.fundacionlonxanet.org) which he set up in 2002. The projects deal with direct marketing, fishing tourism, the creation of marine fishing reserves, the value of maritime cultural heritage and awareness initiatives that provide support for the dignity and empowerment of the fishing professions to enable the fisherman himself to become the executor and trustee of marine resources and ecosystems. In 2004 Dr. García Allut created the Network of Fishing Communities for Sustainable Development (RECOPADES), made up of fishermen’s organisations that have effective answers to different environmental, economic and/or social problems. In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of Ashoka (www.ashoka.org) in Spain.
John Arnold
John Arnold is Head of New Product & Standards Development with the Fairtrade Foundation – www.fairtrade.org.uk - based in London, UK. During his seven years with the Foundation, sales of Fairtrade Certified products in the UK have risen from £50 million to over £700 million/annum. Sales through Labelling Initiatives in 21 countries are now almost €3 billion worldwide supplied by over 750 producer organisations, representing over 1.5 million individual farmers and workers in 58 countries who in turn are represented by Producer Networks in Latin America, Africa & Asia - all members of the stakeholder-owned umbrella organisation - Fairtrade Labelling Organisations (FLO) – www.fairtrade.net.
John’s career has been closely involved in international fisheries and agriculture working with management consultants – ULG Consultants & Fisheries Development Ltd - in primary production, processing and marketing.FLO is now evaluating opportunities for Fairtrade certification in the fisheries and aquaculture sector and John is leading a project team who will be working on a portfolio of assessment projects during 2009/2010 with a view to Fairtrade certification of selected producers in 2010/2011Richard Bates
Richard Bates works in the European Commission as a Policy Officer in the Trade and Markets Unit of the Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Directorate-General. Son of a fisherman, he studied marine biology and later food science at UCD Dublin and previously worked for over 16 year in inshore fisheries and aquaculture development with BIM – the Irish Sea Fisheries Board. During 14 years plus with the European Commission he has worked with fisheries and aquaculture policy, principally in relation to health, environment and trade issues. His work currently includes labelling issues and legislation for organic aquaculture.
Andrew Bassford
Andrew’s background is varied, from being an outdoor adventurer & rafting guide to restaurant design. Although professional life has primarily been about food and wine his passion for the environment has taken him further towards being hands on with protecting our oceans and environment.
Andrew’s passion for fish started in London with being the Managing Director for a restaurant group named Fish!. This passion led to obsession, trying to source the most sustainable options possible. Leading him to move to the Netherlands to team up with a then small operator, Bart van Olphen to develop a completely sustainable fish wholesale company named Fishes. In two years Fishes developed a retail brand and wholesale company. Still a small company they knew their next step was to merge the operation to allow further growth.
Although still part of the Fishes directional team, Andrew is now establishing a foundation. With Andrew’s determination, obsession and access to the market this will allow the foundation to get involved with many fisheries wanting to be sustainable. The role of the foundation is to help with funding, capacity and ultimately creating market access and market awareness.
Over the coming five years Andrew’s ambition is to grow the foundation with the capacity to work on five projects a year, both wild capture and aquaculture. “Although allot of what we have destroyed is irreversible, we should not loose hope and focus on the small steps we can all make…..I am a true believer that we all can make a difference.”
Caroline Bennett
Caroline Bennett originally worked in finance and after spending time in Japan, she set up the first conveyer-belt sushi restaurant in the UK - London’s critically acclaimed Moshi Moshi. Japanese cuisine includes large amounts of fish and Caroline quickly became aware of the environmental problems of fisheries, starting with bluefin tuna. She became increasingly involved in food issues and has worked on various projects aiming to find solutions to problems in fisheries. As well as working in her own restaurants to reduce food miles, work with seasonal foods, increase sustainability, introduce direct sourcing, increase links with local food producers and generally act as a responsible restaurant, Caroline has also co-established the Pisces-Responsible Fish Restaurant initiative.
Pisces-RFR helps chefs source better quality, more sustainable and more local fish and rewards good fishing practices with better prices for the fishermen. Through Caroline's work, with her own restaurant and the Pisces-RFR project, Caroline is both encouraging others to improve sustainability and also making this improvement more logistically possible by directly connecting restaurants with responsible fishermen.
Caroline works to make incremental improvement, year after year, at her restaurants; aiming to consistently increase the sustainability of the menu. Caroline's participation in international forums sees her setting a standard for restaurants not just in the UK but beyond. As a result of her dedication and leadership, Caroline was also recently lauded as a 2009 international Seafood Champion by SeaWeb’s Seafood Choices Alliance, following an award for sustainability from the RSPCA in 2007 and the Green Apple award in 2006.
Stefan Bergleiter
Stefan Bergleiter is a biologist with a focus on fish ecology and did his thesis on Amazon ichthyofauna. In 1998, he joined Naturland, an international certifier of organic products, to develop the organic aquaculture department.
He has initiated and coordinated, numerous pilot projects with certified organic shrimp, Pangasius, and Tilapia aquaculture, in Latin America and Southeast Asia. An important aspect of this work on organic aquaculture is to contribute to IFOAM (International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements) and EU developments in that field. Since 2007, he has been working in the first Naturland capture fishery project in Lake Victoria (Bukoba/Tanzania), which is a PPP project supported by German gtz.
Doug Beveridge
Doug has worked in fisheries for over 25 years, initially on resource assessment for European fisheries, 9 years representing the UK and European catching sector at the interface between fisheries science, fisheries management and the marine environment. Increasingly engaged with the supply chain and developing awareness of the complexities of fisheries management, his focus is on private sector participation in fisheries management.
Melania Borit
Melania Borit holds a LL.M in Maritime Law from University of Oslo, Norway (2005) and a M.Sc.
in International Fisheries Management, NCFS, University of Tromsø, Norway (2009). She has
performed research work on legal aspects of EU-law related to environmental management and the traceability of illegal (IUU) fishing. Presently she is engaged as project secretary and teaching
assistant in quantitative methods and statistics at NCFS. She is doing research in aspects related to consumer-control, eco-labelling and traceability of fishery products with regard to environmental and sustainability issues.
Dr. Luis Bourillón
Luis has been working on marine research, conservation and natural resource management projects in the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) for over 20 years. He started in 1983 doing undergraduate research on marine mammal ecology in the Midriff Islands Region and Bahía de Banderas. In the early 1990´s he switched to researching small-scale fisheries management and island conservation, as a graduate student, and working for Conservation International. In 1999 he and five other marine ecologists founded COBI (Community and Biodiversity www.cobi.org.mx), a leading non-profit Mexican conservation organization in community-based marine resource conservation. COBI specializes in ecosystem-based fisheries management, creation and monitoring of marine reserves for fisheries and ecosystem restoration with fishers full participation and consensus, and economic incentives for fisheries and ecotourism. He has been involved, since 2000, with the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) in starting the fisheries certification program in Mexico, which resulted in MSC certification of the Baja California lobster fishery in 2004, and he is currently working with the Caribbean lobster fishery with the same objective. He has been part of the Stakeholder Council of the MSC since 2002.
Luis holds a Ph.D. in Natural Resources from the University of Arizona, Masters in Management of Natural Resources from the Technological Institute of Monterrey, and Bachelors in Biology from the National Autonomous University of México. Since 2007 he has directed the Mesoamerican Reef Program for COBI, and supported collaborative work between governmental agencies and non-governmental organisations within the new fisheries bill regulatory framework.Peter Bridson
Bridson is the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Aquaculture Research Manager and is responsible for generating Seafood Watch reports and sustainability recommendations for a broad range of farmed seafood products. Originally from the UK, Pete has an MSc in Fisheries Biology and Management and over seventeen years experience in academic, commercial and NGO-based aquaculture research. He has worked with a variety of aquaculture species in Europe, SE Asia and Central America. Prior to working for Seafood Watch, he spent four years developing organic aquaculture standards and regulations in the U.K. and Europe with an emphasis on farmed salmon certification in Scotland.
His career has increasingly focused on understanding the environmental impacts and complex sustainability issues relating to farmed food and seafood, and this led to his current position in the aquarium's Seafood Watch program. He sits on the WWF Shrimp Aquaculture Dialogue Global Steering Committee, and the Global Aquaculture Alliance's Standards Oversight Committee.Jeremy Brown
Jeremy Brown has fishedfrom the Bering Sea to theSouthern Ocean. He presently fishes for salmon on his troller Barcarole off theWashington coast and longlines for halibut and blackcod in Alaska.As a board member of the Washington Trollers Association, he helped develop a successful outreach program for their small fishery, including recognition of troll caught salmon on Slow Food's "Ark of Taste". In 2002Jeremy received a Food and Society Policy Fellowship, enabling him to research and write about marine policy issues. Heis currently vice president of Commercial Fishermen of America.
Brian Caouette
Brian joined the Wild Salmon Center in 2004 and currently serves as Senior Program Manager for the Sustainable Fisheries Program at the Wild Salmon Center. This programme utilizes market tools to advance sustainable salmon fisheries across the range of wild Pacific salmon. Brian is responsible for program leadership, strategy development, and coordination with partners. Brian received his MA in International Environmental Policy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a BA from Boston University. Formerly, Brian has worked with a variety of non-profit organizations including Pacific Environment and the Monterey Bay Aquarium, as well as lived and worked full time at two overseas nature parks: Muraviovka Park for Sustainable Land Use in the Russian Far East and the Animal Refuge Kansai in the hills above Osaka, Japan. Brian was a David L Boren Graduate Fellow in 2002 and was also awarded a US State Department Diplomacy Fellowship.
Dr. Ahmed Mahmoud Cherif
Dr. Ahmed Mahmoud Cherif represents the Mauritanian NGO Pêchecops (Pour une Pêche Ecologique génératrice de Progrès social). Former Director of Fisheries in Mauritania in the 1980s, he is now an expert on fisheries development and on issues arising from distant water fishing fleets' access to Mauritanian waters.
Dr. William Cheung
William Cheung's research focuses on assessing impacts of fishing and climate change on marine ecosystems and their services, extinction vulnerability assessment, ecosystem modelling and evaluating trade-offs between ecological and socio-economic objectives in managing exploited marine ecosystems. William completed his Ph.D. in Resource Management and Environmental Studies at the Fisheries Centre, the University of British Columbia (UBC). He then worked as a post-doctoral fellow with the Sea Around Us Project at the UBC Fisheries Centre from 2007 to 2008, after which he joined UEA as a joint UEA-CEFAS lecturer in marine ecosystem services. WIlliam works on various interdisciplinary research projects that range from global-scale analysis to regional studies in China, Australia and Canada. Examples of hisrecent research include projecting global impacts of climate change on marine biodiversity and fisheries potential, evaluating socio-economic impacts of fisheries management policies in Hong Kong, modelling the South China Sea ecosystem, and developing a fuzzy logic expert system to reconstruct historical abundance of exploited fish populations in British Columbia, Canada. William has been serving as a member of the IUCN Species Specialist Group for Groupers and Wrasses since 2005.
John Connelly
John Connelly is President of the National Fisheries Institute. NFI is America’s leading trade association advocating for the fish and seafood community, representing the fish and seafood commerce chain --- from “water to table.” NFI informs Congress and regulatory agencies, serves as the seafood community’s spokesperson with the media, and provides technical advice to its members. NFI recently formed the Better Seafood Bureau as a means to address economic integrity in the seafood industry.
Connelly has also served as Chairman of International Coalition of Fisheries Associations and works with the World Bank on seafood supply chain issues from developing nations’ sources. Connelly serves on the Board of Trustees for the Marine Stewardship Council, the global leader dedicated to promoting sustainable seafood choices. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation, a global group designed to help ensure the continued sustainability of stocks for canned tuna.
Connelly graduated from The College of the Holy Cross in History.He earned a Masters in Business Administration at night from George Mason University. He and his wife Margaret enjoy hiking in Ireland, skiing, tennis, and their four children.
Flavio Corsin
Sustainable aquaculture and aquatic animal health specialist, coordinating aquaculture activities for WWF in Viet Nam and supporting sustainable aquaculture initiatives, with a strong focus on small-scale aquaculture, for a wide range of international organisations and governments. Graduated with a M.Sc. in Aquaculture from the University of Stirling (UK), he was awarded a Ph.D. in aquatic epidemiology by the University of Liverpool with research in rural areas in Viet Nam and India. He conducted post-doctoral research in the University of Stirling and North Carolina State University (USA), before deciding to move to a more applied and development-oriented position. Worked for the Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA) for 3 years during which he coordinated several projects aimed at developing, disseminating and implementing strategies for sustainable aquaculture development in Viet Nam, Iran, Indonesia and other Asia-Pacific countries. For WWF he coordinates several projects targeted at addressing aquaculture sustainability issues and challenges in accessing certification. He is currently playing also an active role in reviewing aquaculture certification schemes and in developing standards for sustainable aquaculture. Member of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) ad hoc group on aquatic surveillance, he contributes to the development of international standards and guidelines on aquatic animal health management. He also supports several FAO and government activities aimed at controlling aquatic epidemics and biosecurity threats and at improving the sustainability of the aquaculture sector in Asian and African countries. He has been involved in reviewing fish welfare issues for the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
Christopher Costello
Christopher Costello is a professor of natural resource economics at University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on decision making with uncertainty and resource use with incomplete property rights. Much of his work has focused recently on marine resources – specifically fisheries economics - where he researches catch shares and other mechanisms to simultaneously achieve profitability and sustainability.
Costello’s work on fisheries economics includes work on ITQ fisheries, fishery cooperatives, territorial user rights fisheries, marine protected areas, and optimal harvesting under uncertainty. He contributes to these areas by publishing in academic journals, engaging in policy debates, working with fishermen and non-governmental organisations, and serving as a science advisor.
His recent publications on fisheries include publications in Science, Journal of Environmental Economics & Management, Arizona Law Review, Ecology Letters and Marine Resource Economics. Costello's science advisory roles include working with California’s Marine Life Protection Act Initiative, California’s Ocean Protection Council and the Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea.
Christian Décugis
Born in 1958 in Saint-Raphaël (Var), grandson of a small-scale professional fisherman, Christian Décugis has been fishing professionally since 1980 in Saint-Raphaël with nets, large trawling lines, and pots. A member of the Fishing Industry Tribunal for 12 years, Christian Décugis has been the President of the Local Fisheries Commission of the Var since 2009 after having served as a delegate for 8 years (member of the Board, then Vice President). With regards to the Industry Tribunal, he helped with the creation of the Cap Roux fishing area in December 2003, the largest marine reserve in mainland France, which has been the subject of a scientific monitoring study since 2004. With other Industry Tribunal members, Décugis takes part in meetings with Mediterranean fishing representatives (in Greece, in Brussels…) regarding fisheries management and the Common Fisheries Policy. Décugis wishes to impart both the knowledge and the culture of this local trade, as well as his experience wtih collective management. Within the framework of the Local Fisheries Commission, he has worked specifically on issues of training and safety.
Niaz Dorry
Niaz Dorry is the director of the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA). NAMA works with coastal communities to protect our marine environment while strengthening local communities that depend on fishing. In recent years, NAMA has focused on the creation of Community Supported Fisheries (CSF) as a means of promoting locally caught seafood while broadening the base of support for the policy changes being pursued by ecologically responsible, community based fishermen and fishing communities. CSFs encourage environmental stewardship, healthy local economies and vital social improvements in fishing communities and seafood enthusiast communities. Niaz & her dog, Hailey, live in Gloucester, Massahcusetts - the oldest settled fishing port in the U.S. A survivor of Hurricane Katrina, Hailey is Niaz' daily reminder of all the fishing communities that are yet to be rebuilt since the Indian Ocean tsunami and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Niaz began working with small-scale, traditional, and indigenous fishing communities in the U.S. and from around the globe as a Greenpeace oceans and fisheries campaigner. After spending eleven years at Greenpeace, she went on to wroking on advancing the rights and ecological benefits of the small-scale fishing communities as a means of protecting global marine biodiversity independently. Time Magazine named Niaz as a Hero For The Planet for this work. Her fisheries articles appear regularly in Fishermen's Voice and SAMUDRA as well as a range of random publications. Niaz' work and approach have been noted in a number of books including Against the Tide, Deeper Shade of Green, The Spirit's Terrain, Vanishing Species, The Great Gulf, Swimming in Circles, A Troublemaker's Teaparty and The Doryman's Reflection. She is a graduate of the Rockwood Leadership Program’s Leading From Inside Out as well as Art of Leadership trainings. Before joining NAMA, Niaz served as the Interim Chief Operations Office for the Healthy Building Network.
Shaun Driscoll
Shaun has a diverse management background spanning law and fisheries enforcement, insurance sales and health services contracting. The last 10 years have seen him working as a senior manager within the Ministry of Fisheries in New Zealand where he was responsible for significant change, management and growth development within the Compliance Business. For five years prior to joining the FAO, Shaun was the National Investigations Manager at the Ministry, responsible for all major investigations and prosecutions in the commercial, international, poaching and black-market sectors. Shaun also had responsibility for Compliance Business input into the Ministry's 'international sector' engagements.
More recently, Shaun moved to Rome to take responsibility for the development of a comprehensive proposal on the establishment ofa 'Global Record of Fishing Vessels'. This is a challenging global initiative that can significantly enhance current strategies to curb IUU fishing. The project will culminate in the presentation of a comprehensive options paper to a full Technical Consultation to be held in Rome in late 2010. That consultation will effectively be a political negotiation where States will decide whether a Global record is warranted and if so, what shape it should take and how it should be resourced. Today, Shaun is going to share the scope and potential of the work he is undertaking.
Shaun holds LLB(Hons), MSS (Strategic Studies) degrees.
John Duncan
John Duncan completed a BSc in Zoology and completed his honours in Botany at the University of Cape Town from 2001-2004. After travelling, working and adventuring for 2 years, he went on to obtain his MSc in Environmental Science, Policy and Management through the University of Manchester and Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, which included a study of South Africa’s traditional line fishery for his thesis.
Upon returning to South Africa, he joined WWF SA’s Southern African Sustainable Seafood Initiative in 2008 to take charge of the programme’s restaurant participation scheme and has since taken on the running of the wholesale/retailer programme as well. The majority of his work focuses on providing training and advice on sustainability aspects to the seafood industry, such as legality and traceability.
He also works closely with the Marine Stewardship Council’s Southern African office in promoting sustainable seafood choices and through WWF’s Sustainable Fisheries Program, is well placed to have input on most aspects of the seafood trade, from the fishing industry through the end consumer.
His major areas of interest are environmental policy and the development of market incentives for responsible resource management and the socio-economic implications thereof.Charles Ehler
Charles (Bud) Ehler is the President of Ocean Visions, a consulting company specializing in integrated ocean management and marine spatial planning. He works in Paris, France, primarily as a consultant to UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and the Man & the Biosphere (MAB) Programme, and other international organizations. Before moving to Paris in 2005, he worked as a senior executive for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for 27 years leading international and national programs in coastal zone management, strategic environmental assessment, marine pollution monitoring and assessment, oil spill response and natural resource damage assessment. He worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development from 1973-78 and taught regional planning and natural resources management at the University of Michigan, the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He was the Marine Vice-Chair of IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) from 2000-2005. In 2007 he received an award from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for his work on coastal adaptation and its contribution to the award of the Nobel Prize to the IPCC. He is the author of over 90 publications, including most recently a UNESCO guide to marine spatial planning.
Arnstein Eknes
Arnstein Eknes is the Business Director for Special Ships at Det Norske Veritas (DNV), based in Oslo, Norway. His work focuses on sustainability and innovation in the maritime industry and sustainable use of the marine environment. He has was previously DNV Country Manager for Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and responsible for the maritime activities of DNV in these countries. Prior to that he was DNV Head of Section for Offshore support, Ro-Ro, Special Ships and Conversions.
Colin Faulkner
Colin Faulkner is responsible for sea fisheries stock conservation policy for the Scottish Government. This includes policy responsibility for the conservation of stocks such as North Sea cod as well as nephrops and pelagic stocks. He also has responsibility for the Scottish Government's role in external negotiations such as negotiations between the EU and third countries like Norway or Iceland.
Philippe Favrelière
Philippe Favrelière first came to the world of fisheries and aquaculture in 1982, as part of a continuing training program for sea professionals, and began research on fisherman communities in 1984. From 1991 to 2005, he coordinated aquaculture development programs borne by oyster farmers, farmers or fishermen in France or abroad (Blue Tourism in Marennes-Oleron), oyster fishing in Brazil, village fish farming in Ivory Coast, etc.). Recently, with the blog “Aquablog, A Perspective on Fisheries and Aquaculture”, he has begun to channel his efforts toward Web communication for fisheries and artisan sea farming.
Derek Figueroa
Derek Figueroa is the Chief Operating Officer for Seattle Fish Company; a 91-year-old seafood distribution company founded and based in Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. The company is the largest purveyor of fresh and frozen seafood in the Rocky Mountain region. As Chief Operating Officer, Derek handles general management responsibilities for the Lacinos, the family that has carried on the company’s legacy for three generations.
Outside of work, for 17 years Figueroa has been a volunteer ski instructor for the National Sports Center for the Disabled, one of the largest outdoor therapeutic recreation agencies in the world. In 2004, Figueroa was recognized as the National Sports Center for the Disabled Volunteer of the Year.
Figueroa is an active member of the National Fisheries Institute, the leading advocacy organisation for the seafood industry, participating in their Future Leader program in 2003. He was nominated to the Customer Advisory Board for AFS Technologies, a Seattle Fish Company IT provider. He is actively involved with the CU Executive MBA Alumni Association. In addition, Figueroa is a 2008 Leadership Denver graduate and was recently honoured by the Denver Business Journal as a “Forty Under 40” leader in the business community. Figueroa sits on the board of the Colorado Restaurant Association and the Colorado Restaurant Association Education Foundation.
Figueroa holds a Bachelors degree in finance, an Executive MBA, and a Masters degree in finance from the University of Colorado. He lives in Denver with his wife, son and daughter.
Stefan Flothmann
Stefan Flothmann is a Marine Biologist by training. After his masters he worked in fisheries and aquaculture before he started working for Greenpeace in 1994. At Greenpeace he worked as an ocean campaigner until 1997 and then changed to the Genetic Engineering Department, first as team-leader and later as department head. In 1999, he became Campaign Director first of Greenpeace Germany and from 2006 for Greenpeace India. In this capacity he was working on Climate Change, Toxic Pollution, Agriculture and Ocean Protection. In 2008 he changed to his present role as Director of the International Oceans Governance Reform Project at the Pew Charitable Trust. In this capacity he presently focuses on the development and implementation of international legislation to combat Illegal Unreported and unregulated fishing and to protect the Deep Sea.
Maaike Fleur
Maaike joined the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in April 2007 as the Sector Supplement Manager. She is responsible for developing and managing sector supplement projects. During her studies of Environmental Technology and Physical Geography she travelled to many places around the world to do courses at different universities and gain practical experience.
From 2002 to 2007 she was the Dutch Project Manager for the European Eco-label and she facilitated several criteria development projects. Previously, she worked at the Alternative Consumer Bond where she organised the publication of a book on fair and green shopping and later she worked for a sustainable investment program as sustainability analyst.
Maaike has Dutch nationality and has always been active as a board member of several different NGOs.
Nicole Franz
Nicole Franz joined the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Fisheries Policies Divison as an Economist in January 2009. The OECD provides a setting where governments compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practices and coordinate domestic and international policies. One key area of work of the OECD Fisheries Policy Divison is currently Fisheries and Aquaculture Certification.
In 2008 Nicole was at the focal point for fisheries and aquaculture in the Technical Division of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Rome. Previously, she worked on fisheries marketing and policy issues with the Fish Products and Industry Division and the Fisheries and Aquaculture Economics and Policy Divisio of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department. With FAO she was involved in extensive field work on fish marketing in Namibia and in Indonesia.
Nicole holds a degree in Economics and a Master in International Cooperation and Project Design of the University La Sapienza, Rome.
Laurent Galloux
Laurent Galloux is the Head of Bureau Veritas (France) Seafood Division since 1993. He directly manages 20 executives specialised in seafood industry in both fishing and aquaculture. Since 2006, Laurent has been appointed by Bureau Veritas, Head of International Development for the global Seafood industry.
Before joining Bureau Veritas, one of the world largest Certification company, Laurent has acted as a Consultant specialised in Quality and Certification systems for the seafood sector. He also worked as an Expert Scientist for several international and national standardisation process among them: CNERNA-CNRS (microbiology of seafood products), AFNOR , ISO, and OFIMER.
Laurent sits on the board of the Shrimp Aquaculture Dialogue initiated by the WWF in view of creating the future ASC standards.
Laurent is graduated as a PhD in Veterinary Science from the French National Veterinary Academy of Maison Alfort
Dr. Steven Gaines
Gaines is a marine ecologist with ongoing research on marine conservation, the design of marine reserves, the impact of climate change on marine habitats, sustainable fisheries and the coupling between ocean circulation and the dynamics of marine species. He is a lead investigator of the PISCO project (Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans), a long-term consortium studying marine ecosystems off the west coast of the US, the Santa Barbara Coastal LTER (Long Term Ecological Research), studying connections between coastal watersheds and the ecology of kelp forests, the Sustainable Fisheries Group, a programme focused on using market based approaches to enhance the sustainability of marine fisheries, and Flow, Fish and Fishing, a biocomplexity project examining connections between ocean physics, fish, and fishing to enhance the success of fisheries management.
He received his BSc from the University of California, Irvine and his Ph.D. from Oregon State University. He was a postdoctoral fellow and research scientist at Stanford University and served on the faculty of Brown University before joining UC Santa Barbara.
Javier Garat
Javier Garat has been the President of Europêche since July 2009. Born in Cádiz in 1971, Javier Garat served on the Spanish Federation of Fisheries Organizations (Federación Española de Organizaciones Pesqueras--FEOPE) as Secretary-General in 2001. Since then, he has focused his efforts on the defence of Spanish fishing interests around the world. Since July 2007, he has served as Secretary-General of the Spanish Fisheries Confederation (Confederación Española de Pesca--CEPESCA). Today, he is the former President of the Advisory Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture (ACFA), the formal body for consultation by interested parties from the fisheries and aquaculture sectors at the European level, a forum in which he continues to serve as substitute and expert within the EESC and President of the International Coalition of Fisheries Associations (ICFA).
Nigel Garbutt
Nigel is the Chairman of GLOBALGAP: the Global Partnership for Good Agricultural Practices since 2001. After graduating Nigel spent 5 years in Food law enforcement with the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food in London, UK. For 12 years Nigel held a number of Senior Management Positions within the UK Supermarket Chain Safeway, reporting to the Board on Food Safety, Food Technology, Policy and Corporate Social Responsibility. He was a founding Director of the Assured Produce and Assured Chicken Companies and a Director of the Seafish Industry Authority also in the United Kingdom.
Dr. Dominique Gautier
Dr. Dominique Gautier is a biologist from France specialized in aquaculture with a doctorate degree from Auburn University. Dr. Gautier has 20 years of experience working with private and public organizations on Research & Development and commercial projects in several countries of Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Asia. He is a specialist of shrimp farming and regularly serves on committees and expert panels addressing technical aspects of the aquaculture industry. He is currently heading aquaculture, environmental and social programs of Aqua Star Europe, a seafood importer and distributor, in charge of the development of production chains in compliance with environmental, social and technical standards.Dr. Gautier recently started working on building supply chains from small-scale farmers in cooperation with NACA.
Dr. Stefan Gelcich
Gelcich is a marine biologist with ongoing research on the human dimensions of marine fisheries management and conservation. He is a lead investigator of a FONCECYT project (National Fund for Science and Technology) on economic valuation of ecosystem services and its implications for decision making in the central coast of Chile and a BBVA foundation project studying different marine governance approaches to implement and effectively manage marine protected areas in Chile. He is a co-investigator at the CASEB (Center for Advanced Studies in Ecology and Biodiversity) studying links between catch share management practices, biodiversity and environmental attitudes of stakeholders. Gelcich is also a regional councilor for Global Green Grants, an environmental NGO which assigns small grants to grassroots movements engaging in environmental issues.
He received his BSc from the Universidad Católica del Norte, his MPhil from the University of Cambridge and his PhD from University of Wales, Bangor. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Bangor and the Pontificia Universidad Católica.Matthew Gianni
Matthew Gianni is an independent advisor and advocate for ocean conservation based in the Netherlands. Mr. Gianni is a co-founder of the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition – a coalition of over 60 NGOs and fishers organizations worldwide formed to promote UN General Assembly action to protect deep-sea biodiversity and ecosystems.Over the past several years, Mr. Gianni has been a panelist or featured speaker on deep-sea fisheries issues at a variety of scientific and political fora, including annual meetings of the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea; the10th and 11th Deep-Sea Biology Symposia; and the 3rd International Symposium on Deep Sea Corals. He has also participated in UN FAO Expert Consultations on deep-sea fisheries and in the negotiation of a number of international agreements related to the conservation and protection of deep-sea ecosystems including the 1995 UN Fish Stocks Agreement; the 2001 UN FAO International Plan of Action on IUU Fishing; and the 2008 UN FAO International Guidelines for the Management of Deep-Sea Fisheries in the High Seas. He has worked with numerous governments in relation to the deep-sea fisheries provisions of the fisheries resolutions adopted annually by the UN General Assembly and has authored a number of reports on deep-sea fisheries for the UN FAO, IUCN and others.
Béatrice Gorez
Béatrice Gorez has been coordinator of the Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements (CFFA) since 1992. CFFA documents issues arising from the fisheries relations between the EU and ACP countries, in support of initiatives undertaken by ACP and EU civil society (coastal communities, NGOs, media, etc).
David Gould
David Gould is currently the Member Support Manager for the ISEAL Alliance. He is an expert in regulatory frameworks for sustainable production and has worked over the past 15 years in all facets of the supply chain from raw product to table. His experience involves field inspection, certification, accreditation, policy and standards setting, risk assessment, quality control systems, and consultation to private commercial companies, non-profit organizations including certification and accreditation bodies, and governmental agencies. He has trained producers, processors, traders, inspectors, certification officials, and government agents in topics related to sustainable production practices and establishment of regulatory systems for it, in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the South Pacific. David has extensive knowledge of organic, non-GMO, and fair trade systems and principles, as well as several years experience consulting to an Alaskan salmon fishing and marketing company, where he advised on quality control, traceability, certification, and product development. In the late 1990’s he served on the USDA’s National Organic Standards Board’s special sub-committee on aquatic species.
David holds a degree in Life Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following his studies, he spent a decade designing and executing a variety of alternative education systems for students aged kindergarten through adult. His current responsibilities require a mix of technical expertise, development of educational tools, and stakeholder engagement facilities for ISEAL’s membership. He lives with his family in Portland, Oregon, USA, where he frequently enjoys the local delicacies of the ocean.
Benoît Guerin
Benoît Guerin is engineer in agronomics and fisheries issues (from ENSAR : Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Rennes). He first worked for WWF France for 3 years as a fisheries policy officer. Networking with the European WWF national offices, he wrote a proposal for the establishment of Integrated Exploitation and Management Units. The idea is to develop a strategic plan (spanning across 5, 10 and 20 years) along with all the stakeholders and for each fishing ground (management unit) in order to support sustainable fishing.
Since 2007 he has worked as executive secretary for the South Western Regional Advisory Council (SWWRAC). The SWWRAC joins all fisheries stakeholders (fishing industry and other interested parties, such as NGOs) to propose to the European Commission and Member States statement on fisheries’ management on the south Atlantic. The SWWRAC is one of the 7 Regional Advisory Councils established by the Council (European Union) in order to stimulate the participation of the interested parts to reach the objectives of a sustainable fish fixed by the Common Fisheries Policy. He has recently developed and proposed a project (GEPETO, Gestion de las PEsquerias and Transnational Objetivos) involving stakeholders, scientific institutes and national administrations in order to develop a tool kit for a regional fisheries management within the Common Fisheries Policy. The project should enable: 1) to realize a mapping of the fisheries from official data, 2) defining management units throughout the SWWRAC’s area, 3) drafting long term management plans for some pilot fisheries to be proposed to the European Union for enforcement.
Nicolas Guichoux
Nicolas has been with the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) since 2002 and during this time has had a key role in the development of the organisation and where the programme is today.
After he graduated from the French Business School EDC, Nicolas started his career in international business in 1994 in South Korea, at the French Chamber of Commerce. He was then appointed in 1997 as export manager for a leading French seafood processor, Cité Marine, before joining the MSC, where he was responsible for developing the MSC programme in continental Europe.
Nicolas was appointed Regional Director for Europe at the end of 2007. He now represents the MSC at the highest levels in the fishing industry, seafood sector, and government and NGO community within Europe. He is directly involved in the collective management and strategic development of the organisation. Nicolas' role is also to promote and increase support for the programme among fisheries, seafood companies, distributors and retailers and to represent the MSC as European spokesperson on conference panels, for media and at various events.
Clotilde Guyot
Clotilde is today Project Officer at the Regional Committee for Marine Fisheries and Aquaculture of the Languedoc-Roussillon (CRPMEM LR), based in Sète. She’s responsible for the administrative and legal management, and for the coordination of the Committee. In this capacity, Clotilde works on sustainable development policy in the fisheries sector and on integrated coastal zone management closed to French state and local authorities.
Having assisted the local collectivity of Hérault for the development of its fisheries intervention policy and carried out a preliminary work to develop the eel’s management plan (required by European legislation) at the CRPMEM LR, Clotilde worked then at the Cnasea (national agency managing national and european funds). This project aimed at supporting the french Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries to prepare and to make use of the national call for tender of Axis IV of the European Fund for Fisheries, which was etablished to promote local development projects for fischeries and aquaculture. She’s finally joined the CRPMEM LR at the middle of 2009.
A graduate of the Geographic and Territorial Planification Institute of Nantes, Clotilde is specialised in fisheries management and integrated coastal zones management. Her interests are in sustainable development of human activities, coastal and marine environments.
Peter Hajipieris
Peter is well versed in the changing dynamics of the food industry having grown up in the food industry with a family background in fish and chip shops. Peter joined Birds Eye Iglo in the summer of 2008 as the Director of Sustainability & External Affairs at Birds Eye Iglo. He currently leads the development of a sustainable policy programme across all food, packaging and environmental workstreams. Previously, Peter worked for Tesco Stores in 2006, where he became globally know for advancing the progress in Sustainable Fisheries Development. He held the role of Company Policy Manager for Seafood where he was responsible for policy formulation across all seafood related categories with a sales value of €920m. Under his leadership, Tesco became the first supermarket in the world to seek to define seafood sustainability on a whole life cycle basis. Peter is well known for championing sustainable fisheries development across the globe and for providing thought leadership on the challenges of the fish industry and sustainability across the world.
Nell Halse
Nell has a background in Public Relations, community volunteerism, and journalism. Before joining Cooke Aquaculture in 2004, she served as the General Manager of the New Brunswick Salmon Growers Association in Eastern Canada. In her current position as Vice President of Communications for Cooke Aquaculture, Nell serves as company spokesperson, plays an active role on the company’s management team and represents the company’s interests on regional, national and international industry associations. She is the current President of the International Salmon Farmers Association (ISFA). A long-time advocate for a sustainable aquaculture industry and dialogue-based processes, Nell is an active participant in the Salmon Farming Industry Liaison Group with the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization (NASCO) and the World Wildlife Fund Salmon Aquaculture Dialogue.
Nell works under the direction of Glenn Cooke, the company’s CEO and with regional managers to make sure the company’s operations in Atlantic Canada, Maine and Chile are consistent with its corporate and community-based values and with its commitment to environmental sustainability under the company’s recent certification under the Seafood Trust CQS and Eco-label.Dr. Jon Harman
Jon Harman has more than thirty years' experience in the seafood industry. He joined Seafish in 2002, having run and managed shellfish processing and seafood production companies for over twenty years. As Development Director at Seafish, Dr. Harman is responsible for Seafish's relationships with industry and government, the creation of market research data and the promotion of the health benefits of seafood to the public, as well as reputation management for the seafood industry. Dr. Harman is also a Director of Seafood Scotland and Seafood Cornwall, the regional delivery bodies set up to serve these important regions of the UK seafood industry.
Aldin Hilbrands
Since 2006, Aldin has worked for Royal Ahold, one of the largest food retail companies present in Europe and the USA. His responsibilities include the development and enforcement of group policies in the fields of product safety and sustainability. He currently serves as the Chair of the GlobalGAP Aquaculture Standards Committee. In addition, he also active in other standard setting bodies such as GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiative), BSCI (Business Social Compliance Initiative) and GlobalGAP (Global Partnership for Good Agricultural Practies).
Aldin Hilbrands holds a Master of Science degree in Animal Husbandry and the Environment from Wageningen University, The Netherlands. His theses focused on aquaculture and fisheries management of tropical fish species. After graduating in 1996, Aldin worked for Agro Eco Consultancy focusing on the development and implementation of sustainability standards in fisheries operations (Marine Stewardship Council) and aquaculture businesses (organic). One of his key activities was market development for sustainably produced seafood products. In 2000, he became the Seafood Certification Director with SGS (Société Générale de Surveillance), one of the world’s largest inspection, auditing, and testing companies. He was responsible for managing the certification programmes for MSC, MAC (Marine Aquarium Council) and GlobalGAP. Besides environmental audits, he was also involved in food safety auditing in the international seafood industry.
Paul Holthus
Paul is founding Executive Director of the World Ocean Council - which brings together ocean industries to catalyze global leadership in addressing shared marine environmental issues in support of improved business operations and “Corporate Ocean Responsibility”.
His experience ranges from working with the global industry associations and directors of UN agencies to working with fishers in small island villages. He has worked in over 30 countries, mostly in Asia, the Pacific, Central America and West Africa.
Paul works with industry associations, UN agencies, international NGOs and foundations on sustainable development and environmental management in the areas of oil/gas, shipping, fisheries, aquaculture, standards and certification.
Past positions include: Senior Program Officer, UNEP South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), Deputy Director, Global Marine and Coastal Program of IUCN - The World Conservation Union, founding Executive Director, Marine Aquarium Council, Senior Officer, Asia-Pacific Program, The Nature Conservancy. Paul is a graduate of the University of California and the University of Hawaii, specializing in coastal/marine resources and international business.
Sadie Homer
Sadie Homer gained her experience in consumer testing and product standards whilst working for the UK 's Consumers' Association, at their test laboratories, between 1983 and 1996. She has represented consumers in standards committees at the UK, European and International level, since the early 90's. Ms. Homer joined Consumers Internationaltwelve years ago as their Standards Officer, and is responsible for co-ordinating and ensuring that the views of CI's member organizations are heard within the ISO and IEC, at committee, policy and strategic levels. Internally she advises on the horizontalrole of standards in issues of priority to CI, including capacity building programmes developed with other international organisations such as UNIDO. Ms Homer represents Consumers International at the ISO Social Responsibility Working Group developing ISO 26000 and co-ordinatesits consumer stakeholder group. She is a steering group member for the Ethical Trade Fact-finding Process (ETFP), a multi-stakeholder projectwhose remit is 'assuring consumer confidence in ethical trade'.
Dr. Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson is the Technical Director with the International Fishmeal and Fish Oil Organisation. IFFO is the trade body which represents the global interests of the fishmeal and fish oil industry and its members produce around two thirds of the world production. In addition to looking after the technical interests of the members, Andrew has led the team developing IFFO’s Global Scheme for Responsible Supply. The RS scheme, launched in 2009, allows the industry to demonstrate both responsible sourcing of raw materials as well as good manufacturing practice and product safety.
Prior to joining IFFO in 2006, Andrew spent over twenty years in the salmon farming industry in both Scotland and Chile. During this period he held various senior roles in feed, farming and processing within Marine Harvest. For a number of years he was also Chairman of the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation and was instrumental in the development and launch of its Code of Good Practice.
When not travelling the world, Andrew is to be found in Scotland where he lives with his wife and the occasional presence of his son and daughter who are both studying medicine at University.
Steve Jobson
Steve was born in the North East of England. He graduated in Business Studies at Manchester University and moved to Hertfordshire where he now lives with his wife and two children.
Steve has worked within procurement for nearly 25 years for organisations such as British Gas, Amstrad and Rail Gourmet. Steve joined Sodexo 10 years ago and holds the position of Buying Director, UK & Ireland with responsibility for the procurement of food, non-food, retail and facilities management for over 2000 sites with a spend of approximately £400 million.
In his current role Steve is also responsible for Sustainable Procurement and he works closely with Sodexo Group to ensure that the UK is aligned to Sodexo’s worldwide sustainability strategy and initiatives.
Howard M. Johnson
Howard is the buyer’s liaison for Sustainable Fisheries Partnership, an organisation dedicated to maintaining healthy ocean and aquatic ecosystems, enhancing fishing and fish-farming livelihoods and securing food supplies. Howard has over 35 years experience in all facets of the seafood industry. As a consultant, Howard has provided analysis on global seafood trends, planning, marketing and market research. His clients include major U.S. government and international agencies, financial institutions, non-governmental organisations, leading seafood corporations and commodity marketing organisations. He is editor and publisher of The Annual Report on the United States Seafood Industry, an authoritative reference on seafood trends. Howard also serves on the MSC Technical Advisory Board, the conservation committee of the Sea Change Investment Fund LLC and Advisory Board of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch programme.
Dr. Paul Johnston
Dr. Paul Johnston is Principal Scientist at the Greenpeace Research Laboratories situated at the University of Exeter. He was involved in setting up the laboratories at Queen Mary College, University of London in 1987, and has continued working with this part of Greenpeace International since its relocation to the University of Exeter in 1992.
Dr. Johnston has a degree in Marine and Freshwater Biology and was awarded a PhD in 1984 by the University of London for research into the aquatic toxicology of selenium. He has published extensively on marine management and protection, including co-authoring a book "The State of the World's Oceans" published by Springer. Dr. Johnston has more than twenty years experience of providing scientific advice to Greenpeace offices around the world. In addition to his publications on marine protection he has contributed to the work of numerous expert groups and committees including the recently concluded GESAMP Working Group on sources of oil to the marine environment. A few years ago Dr. Johnston was named as one of the top 100 green campaigners of all time by the UK Environment Agency. Dr. Johnston has also participated in the scientific and technical working groups of several international treaties and conventions including the London Convention and most recently for the Convention on Biodiversity. In addition he was a lead author for Chapter 6 of the IPCC Special Report on Carbon Capture and Storage.
Dr. Matthias Kaiser
Dr. Matthias Kaiser, is Director of the National Committee for Research Ethics in Science and Technology (NENT) and a Professor of the philosophy of science at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and Humanities at the University of Bergen, Norway. His area of expertise is in philosophy of science, ethics of science and technology, and technology assessment. Kaiser has worked extensively internationally with organisations such as ICSU, UNESCO, FAO, EURSAFE etc. He has extensive experience in leading research and expert groups. Recently he has chaired the UNESCO COMEST expert group which prepared the UNESCO report on the Precautionary Principle. He was also invited to FAO/WHO expert consultations on transgenic animals for Codex Alimentarius. Kaiser has extensive contact with the aquaculture sector, e.g. EAS, has participated in the EC funded aquaculture project CONSENSUS, and is currently President of the European Society for Food and Agricultural Ethics(EurSafe).
Dr. Ioannis Karakassis
Dr. Ioannis Karakassis is an Associate Professor in the Biology Department of the University of Crete, and head of the Marine Ecology Laboratory. He has coordinated or participated in 15 national and 11 EU funded projects, 10 of which are relevant to Aquaculture-environment interactions (AQUAENV-GR, MARAQUA, AQCESS, BIOFAQs, MERAMED, MedVeg, ECASA, SAMI, AQUAGRIS, PREVENT ESCAPE). He is a member of the Benthic Indicators Group, the IOC-UNESCO, the GESAMP working group on Offshore Aquaculture, and the FAO working group on Ecosystem Approach to Aquaculture. He is also Coordinator of the SHOCMED initiative, and the working group on Site Selection and Carrying Capacity of Mediterranean Aquaculture of the GFCM.
Karakassis is the author or coauthor of more than 60 papers, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Aquaculture Environment Interactions. His research interests include anthropogenic effects on marine ecosystems, the development of indicators for the assessment of biodiversity and the level of health/disturbance of marine ecosystems.Gerald Kencht
Gerald Knecht is the president and founder of North Atlantic, Inc. Presently his responsibilities include developing and implementing strategic vision and growth for the company. He is active in daily management and business development. He is the majority stock holder and an industry veteran with 28 years of operating experience in many segments of the seafood industry.
He began his career in the seafood business in 1981 as a fleet operator of 5 large New England ground fish trawlers. In order to add value to the company he integrated forward in 1984 and began to develop innovative ways of extending shelf life and selling whole fresh fish directly to supermarkets.
Recently Mr. Knecht has made a large commitment to Indonesia where he has established a foreign joint venture with P.T. Kelola Mina Laut. Also he is developing a program in the eastern part of the Indonesian Archipelago to help develop six sustainable fisheries.
Prior to founding North Atlantic, Inc Mr. Knecht worked in various support areas of the fishing industry. He has marketed fishing boats through the early years of the Magnuson Act and sold various types of vessel power and deck gear.
Mr. Knecht earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Bowdoin College in 1976 in Political Science. He studied abroad in both high school and college and has always been a student of foreign cultures and languages. He has held many titles within the industry including President, New England Fisheries Development Foundation, Director, National Fisheries Institute, Director, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Advisor, Food Marketing Institute Seafood Group, Founder, Lesser Sunda Sustainable Fisheries Initiative.
Markus Knigge
Markus Knigge is the Policy and Research Director of the Pew Environment Group’s European Marine Programme. In this capacity he is responsible for developing policy positions, as well as managing and overseeing policy relevant research. Previously, Markus worked as EU Marine Programme Officer for the European Policy Office of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and as a Senior Fellow with Ecologic Institute in Berlin and Brussels.
Markus studied Urban and Regional Planning at the Technical University Berlin, Germany and the Instituto Universitario di Architettura in Venice, Italy. As a scholar of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) he graduated from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University in international affairs and international economics.
In 2004, Markus Knigge was awarded with the John J. McCloy Fellowship in Environmental Affairs and in 2005 with a Research scholarship at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies. He is policy advisor to Ecologic Institute’s Transatlantic Programme, a member of the Tönissteiner Kreis, an association dedicated to the promotion of young international leaders, and of 3plusX, a network for young professionals promoting sustainable development.
Per Gunnar Kvenseth
Per is in charge of Developping organic salmon aquaculture.
Per graduated from the Univeristy of Bergen with a degree in Fisheries Biology spealising in Aquaculture. He has worked on certified organice salmon aquaculture, developed cleanerfish techonology that reduces parasites with out pesticides, hatcher production of ballan wrasse in cooperation with the Institute of Marine Research in Bergen. He also organized “Organic Aquafarming” 2005 and 2006 – an international workshop focusing on the development of organic aquaculture.
Per has also held several international positions including, working as an expert to help develop rules for organic finfish aquaclutre in Europe, an expert with US company Whole Foods Market and the US National Organic Standards Board developing rules for organic aquaculture in the US. Finally Per worked with KPMG as a consultant on aquaculture from 1997 to 2000
Davy Lam
Davy Lam is the Founder and President of Tai Foong USA, Inc. Tai Foong USA supplies seafood to premier retailers and foodservice operators in North America. Tai Foong USA owns a family of brands including Royal Asia®, Northern Chef® and Northern King®. From its headquarters in Seattle Washington, Tai Foong USA, Inc. manages a network of harvesters and processors throughout the world to bring its customers high quality sustainable products.
Prior to founding Tai Foong USA, Inc., Davy worked in his family’s company, which is in the seafood industry and has independent offices in Hong Kong and Toronto, Canada. His father initially founded the family business in 1958. Davy has over 35 years experience in the seafood importing industry. Currently, Davy is working on several sustainability initiatives. One project involves helping small-scale fisheries in Latin America that support coastal towns and communities relying on fish for their livelihood. These fishermen are feeling the pressure to switch from low-impact methods of catch in favor of industrial scale methods.
Alistair Lane
Alistair Lane is Executive Director of the European Aquaculture Society (EAS) located in Oostende, Belgium.
EAS is an International Non-Profit Association that brings together 500 members from 45 countries for the development of sustainable aquaculture.Alistair Lane has been the Executive Director of EAS since 2000. After graduating with an MSc. in Marine Biology, he worked in the aquaculture feeds business for 10 years in UK, France and Spain, with responsibilities in distribution, marketing and general management. He has a special interest in aquaculture networks and has been involved in several European initiatives related to sustainable aquaculture development, notably the CONSENSUS initiative that has defined indicators and provided balanced information to European consumer organisations. He has participated as an expert in several European Parliament Hearings on aquaculture and is a project evaluator for the European Commission and the Research Council of Norway.
Lars-Olle Larsson
Lars-Olle Larsson, Partner, Sustainable Business Solutions, PricewaterhouseCoopers, has worked since 1977, with the management of environmental, social and governance issues in major corporations and large organisations. Lars-Olle has been a member of the accounting profession since 1995 and is an expert member of the Swedish Institute for the Accounting Profession, serving as its representative in the Federation of European Accountants Sustainability Policy Group. He is a member of the Management Committee of the European Sustainability Reporting Association and of the Sustainability Experts Advisory Panel established by IFAC/IAASB/PAIB. He is chait of the Swedish Financial Analysts Corporate Responsibility Group and is the national representative for the ICC Commission on Business in Society. He also chairs the Global Sustainability Awards and the Swedish Institutes’ Sustainability Reporting Awards. Lars-Olle has been official advisor to the Swedish government. the first government in the world to develop new binding guidelines for annual sustainability reporting by state-owned companies coming into effect in 2009. Additionally, he is an appreciated author of a number of books addressing sustainable business development and corporate governance. In audit and advisory assignments regarding environmental and sustainability reporting, Lars-Olle has worked with clients in almost all types of industry and services.
Trygve Berg Lea
Trygve Berg Lea is the International Product Manager at the fish feed company Skretting, with headquarters in Stavanger, Norway. He has responsibilities in product development and also leads the work of the sustainability team at Skretting. He works primarily on feeds for the salmon aquaculture industry. He is currently serving as a member of the steering committee of the salmon aquaculture dialogue, an initiative co-ordinated by WWF USA.
Mr. Lea graduated from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in 1981 and has since held various positions within salmon aquaculture industry.
Sharon Leclercq-Spooner
Sharon Leclercq-Spooner holds a BA Special Honours in European Studies fromthe University of Hull, UK, and an M.A in International Politics from the UniversitéLibre de Bruxelles. She also benefited from the INSEAD young managersprogramme, and a 'stage' in the European Commission’s Internal MarketDirectorate General.
She has an excellent trackrecord at EPPA, especially related to agricultural and trade policy, sustainability in the agri-food supply chain and regulatory issues. Achievements include a major role ingetting reform of the EU sugar regime and election to speak for CAP reform onbehalf of civil society to the Convention on the Future of Europe – ie the assemblyof Europe’s political leaders responsible for drawing up the Lisbon treaty.
Prior to joining EPPA in 1998, Sharon worked 7 years “in house” at Philip MorrisCorporate Services for both food (Kraft Jacobs Suchard) and tobacco interestswith responsibility for trade, taxation and agricultural issues. A particularlyvaluable learning experience came from a 2-year engagement in the co-coordinatingbody of a pan-European campaign for the wide range of sectors involved in Duty Free.
Dr. Rebecca Lent
Dr. Rebecca Lent has served since July 2005 as director of the NOAA Office of International Affairs, an office newly created at the time due to the increasing importance of international fisheries issues. She had been deputy assistant administrator for regulatory programs at NOAA Fisheries, a position she had held since 2001. In that capacity, Rebecca reviewed all NOAA Fisheries’ proposed regulatory actions, including those to support protected resources, sustainable fisheries, and habitat conservation in both the national and international arenas.
Rebecca joined NOAA in 1992, serving as the economist for and later chief of the Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Management Division. She has broad experience in dealing with a wide variety of controversial fishery management issues affecting fishermen, conservationists, business, and communities.
Rebecca was appointed Southwest Regional Administrator for NOAA in 2000 and in this capacity directed the agency’s fisheries management and science programs in the southwestern United States, Hawaii, and the U.S. Trust Territories.
She earned her Ph.D. in resource economics from Oregon State University in 1984 and holds a master’s degree in economics (1978) and a bachelor’s degree (1975).
George Leonard
George Leonard is the Director of Ocean Conservancy’s Aquaculture Program where he works to ensure that U.S. aquaculture develops under strong environmental standards. In particular, his work is currently focused on legislative and regulatory activities surrounding the development of open ocean aquaculture in state and federal waters. From 2002 to 2007, he was the Senior Science Manager for Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program where he was responsible for overseeing the research and analysis of capture fisheries and aquaculture practices related to the development of sustainability recommendations for the public and businesses. These recommendations were presented in the form of regional, wallet-sized pocket guides for consumers as well as sourcing guidance for major seafood buyers. George holds a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Brown University and a M.S. in Marine Science from Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. Before joining Seafood Watch in early 2002, he was the Program Manager for COMPASS (the Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea) where he helped communicate emerging marine conservation science to policymakers, NGOs and resource managers.
Rich Lincoln
Rich directs the State of the Salmon, a programme that builds knowledge across borders, linking a greater understanding of Pacific salmon to improved management and conservation of the species. Rich has 33 years of varied experience in fisheries research, management, and policy in the Pacific Northwest as well as working on global fisheries sustainability. A graduate of the University of Michigan, a central focus of his career has been promoting the use of best available science in sound resource management decision-making. Prior to joining the State of the Salmon, Rich was International Policy Director with the Marine Stewardship Council in London, UK. Other past roles have included bi-lateral chair of the Pacific Salmon Commission's Fraser Panel under the U.S.-Canada Salmon Treaty, leading development of Washington State's Wild Salmonid Policy and Wild Stock Initiative, and developing cooperative management arrangements with Northwest treaty Indian tribes. Rich has a strong history of involvement and leadership in salmonid research program's including hatchery supplementation, freshwater productivity evaluation, and development and application of salmonid stock identification techniques to improved fishery management.
David Little
Dave Little is a Professor of Aquatic Resource Development at the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Scotland. Based within the Development and Environment Group, he has over thirty years’ experience in tropical aquaculture. His major research interest is the parallel models for aquaculture in development evolving in Asia and their impacts on the poor. He has published widely and worked in post-graduate education and research based in Asia. He has co-ordinated several research projects between the University of Stirling and a range of partners in South and Southeast Asia, with both UK-DFID and EU funding. He coordinates the EU-funded FP7 project ‘Sustaining Ethical Aquatic Trade’ (SEAT) working with 14 partners in Europe and Asia to research the burgeoning trade in seafood between the continents.
Tony Long
Tony Long has 30 years experience working in environmental policy and public affairs in the United Kingdom, Europe and globally. He founded the WWF European Policy Office (EPO) in Brussels in 1989 where he is still the director. He serves on the WWF global Conservation Committee responsible for developing and overseeing the WWF International conservation programme worldwide.
He currently serves on several advisory boards. These include the Andrew Lees Trust implementing rural development projects in southern Madagascar, the Board of WWF Greece and the Dow Chemical Company’s Sustainability External Advisory Council.
He graduated from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, with a first-class Honours degree in town and country planning. He is a former Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund of New York, a Congressional Fellow of the American Political Science Association and a German Marshall Fund travel fellow. He taught as visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges for 6 years and undertook research at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. He is the author of numerous articles on political lobbying. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (FRSA).
Meredith Lopuch
As the Deputy Director of WWF’s Major Buyer Initiative Meredith Lopuch works with major seafood buyers to encourage and assist them in using their purchasing power to secure seafood from environmentally sustainable sources, to assess current seafood supply chains for sustainability of supply, and to use their supply chain to improve fisheries around the world. In addition to her international work, Meredith has also worked on a number of California marine conservation initiatives including deep-sea seamount protection and marine protected area development in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Before joining WWF in 2000, she spent time at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Meredith has a B.A. in economics, a B.S. in biology—with a focus in marine biology—and an M.S. in environmental studies and environmental economics from Stanford University.
Chris Mann
Chris Mann is a senior officer with the Pew Environment Group, the environmental program of the Pew Charitable Trusts, where he directs projects on aquaculture, management of forage fisheries, and ocean governance reform. He joined the Trusts with more than 20 years of experience in marine policy and science. Prior to joining the staff of the Trusts, he was executive director of the Marine Aquaculture Task Force, a project of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution with support from the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Lenfest Ocean Program. The Task Force brought together leaders in aquaculture, conservation, marine science and policy to recommend national standards for sustainable aquaculture in marine waters of the United States.
Chris was Ocean and Coastal Policy Director for the Pew Oceans Commission, where he oversaw the Commission’s work on ocean governance and coastal development. He managed legislative affairs on international environmental and economic issues at the State Department. Before moving to the State Department, he worked for the House of Representatives on marine resources conservation and management, first for the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and later for the Committee on Resources. Chris received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois and attended the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography.
Jimmy Martinez Ortiz
Jimmy Martinez was born in Esmeraldas, Ecuador and graduated from Guayaquil as marine biologist 25 years ago. He started his career at the National Fisheries Research Institute (INP), participating in every campaign for 10 years and finally getting a position in charge of the small scale fisheries project.
He has published many papers on this sector, and his attitude to go always further, deeper and look for solutions, drove the European funded VECEP project to name him Director of the Artisanal Fisheries section, where Jimmy had previously worked for 5 years on facilities and capacity building. Many facilities along the Ecuadorian coast, such has artisanal harbors, mini-processing plants and cold storage were built and many fishermen and fishworkers were trained during those years as a result of his strong leadership in this area.
Jimmy has long standing interest in small scale fisheries, and has dedicated his time to better understanding these fisheries, such as the mahi-mahi fishery. Through his work and involvement with INP, he was able to publish the only available stock assessment of the mahi-mahi fishery in Ecuador. When the demand for certified fish increased, particularly in the US market, Ecuadorian mahi-mahi exporters became strongly involved in the improvement the fishery's management, with as their Jimmy adviser. The main challenge for the fishery's certification was a lack of information and management. Currently, Jimmy serves the role as Senior Advisor to the Subsecretary of Fishing Resources, working to solve those problems.
Dr. Malcolm McGravin
A biologist with a Ph.D in ecology, in the mid-1980s Malcolm MacGarvin left post-doctoral research to work with environmental groups. In the early 1990s his Greenpeace book on the North Sea was translated into all major European languages. Other work includes coauthoring Choose or Lose for WWF (2000) on a strategy for fisheries recovery, leading to the Invest in Fish SW project, and writing Deep-Water Fishing for Greenpeace (2005). He works as a consultant for the European Commission’s DG Environment, and was executive editor, and wrote the fish chapter of Taking Stock, for one of the European Environment Agency’s most successful publications, Late Lessons from Early Warnings and is currently working with the EEA on its sequel, dealing with guidance for policy makers on issues as varied as bee disappearance, global warming, mercury pollution, floods and declining fertility. Malcolm was member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s inquiry (2004) into the Future of the Scottish Fishing Industry. However, for the last few years his passion has been getting out on inshore fishing boats around the British Isles and documenting efforts to improve sustainability, quality and local sourcing as part of the Pisces-Responsible Fish Restaurants Initiative. To that end, Malcolm has probably spent as much time as anyone ‘going between the lines’ with fishermen, environmentalist and others. His photography has been featured in journals, national newspapers and on the www.pisces-rfr.org website.
Mike Mitchell
Mike Mitchell is Technical Director at The Seafood Company. He has been in the technical sector of the seafood industry since 1981 and has a special interest in affairs related to the provenance, traceability and sustainability of both wild captured and farmed fishery products. MIke retains a number of external appointments where he represents The Findus Group, including; The Marine Stewardship Council Stakeholder Council Steering Group, The Scottish Parliament Ministerial Working Group on Aquaculture (steering group) and The Technical Advisory Committee for the International Fishmeal and Fish Oil Organisation Responsible Sourcing Code.
Pierre Mollo
Pierre Mollo started his career as a biologist with the construction of a lobster hatchery with the fishermen of Houat (150,000 juveniles per year) and the development of flat oyster reproduction. With the salt harvesters of Guérande, he shows planktonic interdependence between salt harvesters, shellfish breeders, and fishermen, and the need to preserve and "coordinate" these jobs. A teacher-researcher, he is responsible for developing and expressing know-how and knowledge to students, professionals, and the public, within schools for agriculture, aquaculture, and the sea, and internationally (Benin, Cambodia, Vietnam, Ukraine) or associations involved with various players (farmers, fishermen, shellfish breeders…) in coastal management or the observation of plankton. As evidence of these collective adventures and of this plankton experience, he has made 25 films and videos, written numerous articles, participated in conferences, and created a website www.plancton-du-monde.org with OCEANOPOLIS. He is currently taking part in new films ("Oceans" by Jacques Perrin, "Plankton Planet" by Jean-Yves Collet for ARTE) and is preparing a book, "The Plankton Challenge" with Maëlle Thomas-Bourgneuf with Editions Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer for Human Progress.
Geoffrey Muldoon
Geoffrey comes to the Coral Triangle Program with an academic background in economics. He has worked in the fisheries sector within South-east Asia since 2002, while completing his PhD in Fisheries Economics.
His background is varied having worked with the NGO sector on market-based initiatives that promote sustainability in fisheries and with government agencies undertaking market, trade and economic analyses on coral reef fisheries.
Geoffrey began working with WWF in 2006, examining the live reef fish trade within the Sulu-Sulawesi Marine Ecoregion before being appointed strategy leader for the live reef food fish trade sub-initiative of the Coral Triangle programme.
Geoffrey coordinates a suite of LRFT activities across the Coral Triangle working on diverse issues (industry roundtables, full-cycle mariculture, consumers, partnership development between government and private sector and understanding and redressing ecosystem impacts) and working closely with all CT countries as well as those such as Hong Kong and Singapore whose footprint extends into the region.
More recently his focus has shifted beyond live reef food fish to encompass coastal small-scale fisheries generally and the application of market-based approaches outside the traditional certification frameworks that can incentivize fishers to incrementally improve their fishing practices, particularly given the role of developing countries in the global seafood trade.
While recognizing the importance of seafood trade to millions of people in the region, for Geoffrey the biggest challenge is assisting stakeholders to recognize the problem and facilitating gradual improvement multi-stakeholder, multi-lateral solutions.
Alex Muñoz
Alex Muñoz is Oceana’s Vice-President for South America. He has worked with Oceana between 2003 and 2004. In 2008 he rejoined the organization to direct its Chilean campaigns which include strengthening oversight of the Chilean salmon industry, protecting ocean habitat, limiting catches of non-targeted marine life and protecting vulnerable marine mammals.
He has led Oceana’s salmon aquaculture campaign, which aims to persuade the Chilean government to revise the antibiotics permitted in salmon aquaculture in order to significantly reduce the use of these chemicals. Oceana is also working to stop farmed salmon escapes in Chile. Finally, Oceana in Chile is working to protect Patagonia from the expansion of salmon aquaculture.
Prior to rejoining Oceana in January 2008, he was the Program Coordinator for the Transparency and Anti-Corruption Program at the University of Chile Law School's Human Rights Center. In that capacity, he was responsible for putting together the first regional fellowship course on transparency, accountability and anti-corruption for Latin American practitioners, faculty and other relevant actors.
Through his career, he has worked with different non governmental organizations, and dedicated himself to advocating for different public interest issues such as freedom of expression, environmental protection and the defense of women against domestic violence. Mr. Muñoz received a law degree from University of Chile and a Master's degree in international and comparative law from George Washington University in 2005. He has specialized in environmental law and international human rights law.
Rachel Mutter
Rachel Mutter is Aquaculture Publications Editor for Intrafish Media, producing the world's most read aquaculture publication Fish Farming International and providing coverage for daily news site Intrafish.com. This and her previous roles with sister publications Seafood International and Seafood Processor have taken her to some of the world's most important producing nations, meeting key players and getting a privileged inside account of the industry's biggest stories. Rachel recently redesigned and relaunched Fish Farming International adding extra business and financial insight. As well as providing must-have health, equipment and technical information FFI now keeps an even closer eye on environmental and market developments and is a must-read for all industry leaders. Born and raised in London, Rachel's career in journalism dates back to 2000 when she started out as a news reporter for a major City insurance journal.
Inger Näslund
Inger Näslund is a marine biologist with an MSc in marine ecosystems and environmental issues, from the University of Stockholm. Her passion for scuba diving, fish and the ocean’s vulnerable richness of resources proved to be useful in the Swedish Development Aid Programme for higher academic studies of marine issues in east Africa. In this context she did research and trained local marine scientists to scuba dive. As consultant, the certification schemes and ISO standards for environmental assessment of products and processes have been a crucial part of her work with different companies, governmental bodies and local authorities. Since 2002 she has committed herself to work with WWF concerning marine issues, especially fish, fisheries management and fish markets. Responsible for WWF’s seafood guide and continuous discussions with the fishing industry, her focus has been on sustainable seafood, from balanced ecosystems aiming for environmental certification. The seafood guide includes wild caught and farmed seafood. The overall goal is sustainable fish production and consumption while minimising negative environmental impact on ecosystems. Her experience has led to work with several reference groups working on fish and fishing and she is an appreciated lecturer with her broad knowledge and inspiring attitude. Part of her work in the WWF network is with marine and fisheries issues in coastal East Africa and Madagascar, focusing on fisheries management, by-catch and illegal fishing. In the coming years Inger will continue to work with ecosystem based management, sustainable food production and protection of vulnerable and important marine habitats.
Chris Ninnes
Chris Ninnes is the Deputy CEO of the Marine Stewardship Council. He holds a Bsc in Biology, as well as a Postgraduate Diploma in Tropical Fisheries Management, and an Mphil degree in Zoology. Chris’ role is to contribute to the collective management and strategic development of the organisation, providing cross-organisational support to the CEO, deputising for the CEO and the promotion and representation of the organisation at the most senior levels across key stakeholder audiences internationally. Chris was Vice President of MRAG Americas, a subsidiary of MRAG Ltd - a leading consulting firm dedicated to promoting sustainable utilisation of natural resources. He has over 25 years of experience in natural resource and aquatic environment-related management and development in 30 countries and territories, including the Turks and Caicos Islands, St Helena, Sudan and Kenya, where he began his career.
Dr. Alejandro Obach
Dr. Alejandro Obach Medrano, (Alex Obach), veterinarian, PhD, is the managing director of Skretting Aquaculture Research Centre AS (ARC). Previously, he was the global technical director of Marine Harvest and a researcher at Skretting ARC. As Skretting’s R&D director he heads research related to fish nutrition and health as well as feed production technology, food safety and quality. To assure technology transfer in the Skretting businesses, Dr. Obach is also a member of the global management team within Skretting.
Skretting ARC is the global research centre for the Skretting companies worldwide. It has state of the art facilities for test feed production, fish trials and laboratories. Skretting produces fish feed for more than 50 species with production facilities in Europe, Turkey, North and South America, Japan and Australia.
Dr. Rob Ogden
Rob Ogden holds a BSc in marine biology from the University of Liverpool and a PhD in population genetics from Bangor University, where he has an Honorary Research position. In 2003 he founded Wildlife DNA Services, a laboratory and consultancy service providing conservation genetic and wildlife forensic analysis. This was followed by the formation of Food DNA Services, focusing on the use of genetic identification methods to authenticate food products. Through his participation in the UK Wildlife Forensics Working Group, he has also become a director of the TRACE Wildlife Forensics Network, a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting the development and application of forensic techniques to the enforcement of wildlife law and trade regulations. These enterprises have led to his involvement in a wide variety of research and development projects including the production and validation of DNA profiling systems for species detection, geographic origin assignment and individual identification. Throughout his career he has maintained a strong interest in fisheries genetics, particularly in the development of genetic tools for authenticating products in trade and enabling traceability along the food supply chain. He is currently involved in the European FishPopTrace project and works with the Marine Stewardship Council.
Alex Olsen
Alex Olsen is the Corporate Project Manager for Sustainable Production within the Espersen Group. He holds a M.Sc. in Food Science from Faculty of Life Sciences University of Copenhagen as well as a master in Environmental Management from Technical University of Denmark. The last couple of years Alex has invested a lot of time in improving the situation in the Baltic Sea demersal fisheries. Alex represents the European Seafood Processors and Traders Association in the Baltic Sea Regional Advisory Council and is centrally involved witn the SFP Baltic Sea Fishery Improvement Partnership. Previously, Alex worked for McDonald’s Europe, where he was one of the pioneers in establishing the McDonald’s Agricultural Assurance Programme.
Yngvar Olsen
Yngvar Olsen has been a full Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondhjem Biological Station, Norway, since 1995. He has, since 2006 acted as Director of the Strategic Marine Focus Area at NTNU, responsible for facilitating, coordinating, and directing marine research at the university. Previously, he was a senior scientist at SINTEF.
Professor Olsen has about 25 years of experience within the main research field of marine plankton; including live feed technology for marine fish larvae, lipid nutrition and first feeding of marine larvae, marine phyto- and zooplankton interactions, food web dynamics, trophic cascades, biochemical composition, nutrient cycling, and coastal eutrophication. He has published around 110 papers in international peer-reviewed journals. His scientific specialities are marine juvenile production, coastal eutrophication, and environmental interactions with aquaculture.
Beside his academic and research activity, Professor Olsen was a member of the Board of Directors and a Vice President of the World Aquaculture Society (WAS) from 2002 to 2006. He has been involved in the organisation of several WAS and EAS conferences, and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany (2004 to 2012). He acted as President of Norwegian Board for Cooperation in Marine Sciences from 2001 to 2005.
Dr. Yuko Onozaka
Dr. Yuko Onozaka is an associate professor in the Department of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Stavanger, Norway. She was born and raised in Japan, then moved to the United States for her college education. She graduated from the University of Washington, Seattle with bachelor degrees in economics and statistics (1999), then obtained her Masters (2001) and PhD degrees (2007) in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Davis.
She was an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Colorado State University for two years, prior to taking her current position in the fall of 2008. Dr. Onozaka’s main research area is food markets. She has investigated how people’s perceptions, attitudes, and experiences interact with various product claims (such as organic, fair trade, locally grown, country of origin, and food miles and carbon footprint measures) to influence consumers’ food choices, using state-of-the-art quantitative methods. In an on-going project, on which the results presented in this conference are based, she teamed up with Japanese and U.S. researchers to investigate the current situation and future prospects for sustainable seafood sale in Japanese markets.
Julie Packard
Julie Packard, Executive Director and Vice Chairman of theMontereyBay Aquarium'sBoard of Trustees, has directed the organization since it opened in 1984. Her commitment to advancing ocean conservation has been demonstrated through the aquarium and far beyond. She serves on numerous boards including the California Nature Conservancy, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. She was also a member of the Pew Oceans Commission, which in 2003 issued its recommendations for a comprehensive overhaul of national ocean policy. Ms. Packard was 1998 recipient of the Audubon Medal for Conservation, and 2004 recipient of the Ted Danson Ocean Hero Award from Oceana, a leading ocean conservation organization. Julie was recently elected by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences to its 2009 Class of Fellows
Dr. Arun Padiyar
Dr. Arun Padiyar P. is an aquaculture specialist and is a regular consultant to FAO and IFC (World Bank Group). He has graduate and post-graduate degrees in fisheries and aquaculture science from college of fisheries, Mangalore, India and obtained PhD from Deakin University, Australia in 2008. During last 10 years of his professional career he was an aquaculture farmer and worked on aquatic epidemiology, extension, better management practice, cluster farm management and aquaculture product value chain development in small-scale farming sector. He has in-depth understanding in development of rural livelihoods through aquaculture. He is also specialized in post-disaster and post-conflict rehabilitation and development activities in food and agriculture sector. During 2001-2005 he worked as Project Manager for MPEDA-NACA project in India. Since August 2005 he works in tsunami affected Aceh, Indonesia. And he also has taken up short-term technical assignments related to aquaculture and livelihoods in various countries including China, Thailand and Vietnam.
Mike Park
Mike entered the fisheries sector at the age of 18, and after a career spanning 30 years, of which 25 were as a skipper and company owner, he has recently concentrated his energies to shore based activities. Mike is currently Executive Chairman of the Scottish White Fish Producers Association, the largest ‘fisheries’ trade association in the Europe covering 240 individual vessels and 1200 fishermen with a collective turnover approaching 200 million Euro. His other industry commitments are: Member of the Board, Sea Fish Industry Authority, a ministerial appointment; Member of the Board, Banff and Buchan College of further education; Chairman of Box Pool Solutions Ltd; Director, Aberdeen Fish Producers Organisation, and Vice Chairman of the North Sea Regional advisory Council. Mike also chairs the Scottish Fisheries Sustainability Accreditation Group which is the driving force behind certification of the main Scottish Demersal stocks, and is a member of various industry/government initiatives, including Conservation Credits. In his spare time Mike has been studying towards a degree in European Affairs through the Open University.
Dr. Graeme Parkes
Dr. Parkes is a marine scientist with over twenty years professional experience in fisheries management. Dr. Parkes started his career at Imperial College, London, achieving a PhD in Fishery Science in 1993, studying the population dynamics and commercial exploitation of icefish in the Southern Ocean. Since then he has worked for MRAG, a UK based consultancy company, being appointed to Deputy Managing Director in 2008. He also spent seven years in the US between (1997-2003) establishing MRAG’s US entity, MRAG Americas. Dr. Parkes is a member of the EU Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) and has been a member of the UK’s delegation to the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) since 1991.
As MRAG’s Deputy Managing Director, Dr. Parkes is responsible for the development and management of the core business areas and functions of the company, senior input major projects, development of new business and the management of the internal IT group. Dr. Parkes’ experience includes work in several specialist areas, including decision support tools for fishery management, evaluation of management systems, fishery resource assessment; information management; resource survey design; monitoring, control and surveillance, observer programs; and strategic planning. Recent projects include a review of fish sustainability information systems, an analysis of rights based management in EU Member States; impact assessment of alternative discard policies, and alternatives for reform of CFP Control Regulation, review of science procedures in Regional Fisheries Management Organisations and evaluation and mitigation of environmental impacts of fisheries, including interactions with habitat and protected species.Dr. Lucian Peppelenbos
Dr. Lucian Peppelenbos is employed as Learning Manager with the Dutch Sustainable Trade Initiative, where he works on the acceleration and upscaling of sustainability in international commodity chains in mainstream markets. Lucian holds a PhD in agricultural sciences from Wageningen University, where he specialized in value chain management. Until 2009 he was a senior adviser at the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), where he worked on pro-poor business development in Africa, Latin America, and India. Before this, he worked in Chile as a management consultant for export agribusiness firms, farmer cooperatives and international agencies. Lucian has published 4 books and several articles, primarily targeted at practitioners.
Dr. Michael Phillips
Dr. Michael Phillips is a senior scientist at the WorldFish Center in Malaysia engaged in a wide ranging program for research and development of aquaculture in the Asia-Pacific region. Dr Phillips has been working on environmental issues on Asian aquaculture for over two decades and specialized in environmental management of aquaculture, recently focussing on development and promotion of better management practices. In recent times he has been involved in tsunami rehabilitation work for fish farmers in Aceh, Indonesia and also played a major role in developing the “International Principles for Responsible Shrimp Farming” which received the “Green Award” by the World Bank in 2006.
Steve Phillips
Steve Phillips comes from a long line of Chesapeake Bay watermen; his grandfather opened a crab picking and processing plant more than 90 years ago on Maryland’s Hoopers Island. His parents, Brice and Shirley Phillips, opened the first Phillips Seafood Restaurant in Ocean City, MD in 1956. After receiving his BS from the University of Miami in the late 1960s, Steve returned to Ocean City to help run the family business. It was Steve who spearheaded the company’s expansion outside of Ocean City into Baltimore and beyond. Today, there are full-service Phillips Seafood Restaurants throughout the Mid-Atlantic and a growing franchise group of airport locations across the country.
Difficulties sourcing a consistent supply of quality crabmeat & seafood from the Chesapeake Bay in the late 1980s led Steve on a global search for crab for his family’s restaurants. Crab in Southeast Asia was almost identical to the Chesapeake Bay. He built processing plants in SE Asia for pasteurized meat. Today, Phillips Foods produces over 10 million pounds of blue swimming crab meat/year and sells a full line of seafood products nationally to grocery and club stores, as well as chefs across the country for use in their own restaurants.
Steve has taken a leadership role in crab sustainability across Asia. As someone who has experienced firsthand the effects of overfishing in the Chesapeake Bay, he is committed to making sure that doesn’t happen in Asia.
John Pinnegar
John Pinnegar is Programme Director for Marine Climate Change at Cefas, the UK government fisheries lab in Lowestoft, England. His research interests include, the impact of climate change on marine animal populations, marine food-webs and ecosystem modelling, stable isotope analysis and predator-prey interactions, marine protected areas, bioeconomic modelling. He is a current co-chair of the ICES Working Group on Multispecies Assessment Methods (WGSAM) and he has published widely on trophic interactions and the relative importance of fishing and climatic factors in determining fish stock status. He plays an active role in many EU and national research programmes, and completed his PhD in 2000, at the University of Newcastle, on Mediterranean food-webs and carbon-nitrogen-phosphorus budgets. He is an honorary lecturer at the University of East Anglia, and was awarded the Fisheries Society of the British Isles ‘FSBI Medal’ in July 2009, in recognition of younger scientists who are deemed to have made exceptional advances in the study of fish biology and/or fisheries.
Dr. Mark Powell
Dr. Mark Powell is Global Seafood Leader for WWF international. In this role, he works with WWF staff and seafood businesses around the world on advancing sustainable fisheries.
Prior to joining WWF, Powell developed and led fish conservation and sustainable seafood programs for Ocean Conservancy for 10 years, including working with governments, businesses and individuals, and also ran a consulting business focused on managing fish and watersheds with clients that included governments, businesses, and NGOs.
Powell earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, while working at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He has worked as an Assistant Professor of Marine Sciences at the University of Connecticut, and as a postdoctoral researcher at the Hopkins Marine Station and Bodega Marine Laboratory.
Christian Rambaud
The Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheriessteers, in close relationship with stakeholders at regional and European level, the development and implementation of the Integrated Maritime Policy and manage the Common Fisheries Policy with a view to promote the sustainable development of maritime activities as well as the sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources within and beyond Community waters.
Sara Randall
Born and raised in a small village on the coast of Maine, Sara has been working to promote and protect sustainable fisheries and traditional coastal communities for the past seven years. She is the Program Director for the Institute for Fisheries Resources, where she oversees the Institute’s programs that establish alliances among fishing men and women, government agencies, and concerned citizens to protect fish populations and restore aquatic habitats. In 2004, after seeing fishing men and women frustrated by their lack of a national voice, Sara was inspired to help create a national coalition of fishermen, the Commercial Fishermen of America (CFA). As a national organizer for CFA, Sara works to bring fishermen together to address problems facing the fishing community. Sara was appointed by the State of California to serve on a committee to improve maritime safety in San Francisco bay following an oil spill in 2007. She was also appointed to the San Francisco Food Policy Council in 2009. Sara is a co-founder of the Salmon Aid Festival, a two-day concert designed to raise awareness about the plight of wild salmon on the west coast of North America.
Peter Redmond
Peter Redmond was born in Ireland and raised in the UK. After leaving the British Army, serving three years, Peter immigrated to the US in 1987…..with only a few dollars to his name. Mr. Redmond graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1991 and began working for Wal-Mart stores Inc. Mr. Redmond worked at Wal-Mart for 17 years, during this tenure he worked a variety of roles and capacities; store operations, international assignments, senior buyer and for seven years, Vice President and Divisional Manager for Deli and Seafood. While in this capacity Mr. Redmond was charged with developing the seafood strategy for environmental sustainability. The resulting program and work are well known throughout the seafood industry and NGO groups.
In 2008 Mr. Redmond left Wal-Mart to work with the G.A.A. (Global Aquaculture Alliance), an NGO that focuses on the creation and implementation of certification standards in the aquaculture sector. The GAA mission is best stated as helping to feed the world through responsible aquaculture. Since this time Mr. Redmond has worked with some of the largest retailers in the world, both nationally and internationally, along with a plethora of manufacturers and NGOs as the GAA has gained momentum and traction in the market place.
In May 2009, Mr. Redmond accepted the position of Vice President of Development and Communications for the GAA (Global Aquaculture Alliance). Mr. Redmond is a proud father of two, an 12 year old daughter Paige, and a 14 year old son Hayden, is married to Jennifer and makes his home in Springdale, Arkansas.
Diane Regas
Diane is Associate Vice President for Oceans at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), where she leads a diverse team of 50 scientists, advocates and other experts. EDF ranked first among environmental groups—and second overall—in the 2007 Financial Times global study of 850 business-nonprofit partnerships. In 2009 Glamour Magazine recognized Diane as one of the “women who are changing the world.”
Since Diane joined EDF in 2006, the Oceans team has played a key role in several important victories, including, making the case for reforming fisheries management in the Unites States and Mexico and protecting one of the largest ocean areas in history—more than 195,000 square miles—bigger than the state of California.
Prior to joining EDF, Diane spent 20 years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), where she served during four presidential administrations, in some of the agency's highest positions, including Deputy Assistant Administrator. Her EPA accomplishments included: receiving the Presidential Rank Award for “exceptional long-term accomplishments," and leading a path-breaking monitoring strategy, establishing the first-ever scientifically valid national report card on fresh water quality.
Diane is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court Bar and California Bar.Barbara Rodenburg-Geertsema
Barbara Rodenburg was born in 1969 in the urban area of the West of the Netherlands. Her father was a farmer’s son who became a technical engineer and her mother was a trucker’s daughter who next to being mother and housewife worked part time as typist and receptionist.
She studied forestry and nature management and worked as an advisor for a commercial engineering agency and for the Province of Noord-Holland. After that she worked over 7 years for a an alliance of 30 local farmers cooperatives for nature management in agriculture.
Barbara Rodenburg has always loved sailing and the sea. Since 1992 she lives on a boat. In 1999 she met the artisanal fisherman Jan Geertsema and became a part time fisher. The couple married in 2002. In 2007 Barbara quit her job for the farmers cooperatives and became a full time fisher. She has no children. Together with Jan she fully dedicates her life to their small fishing business and the preservation of the traditional small scale fishery of the Waddensea.
Rohana Subasinghe
Rohana Subasinghe is a Senior Aquaculture Officer at the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of FAO. He is specialized in aquaculture development and aquatic animal health management. Since his graduation in 1980 from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, he has worked in all parts of the world, with most experience in Asia. He joint FAO in 1994 and took responsibility in implementing many projects on aquaculture and aquatic animal health at national, regional and international levels worldwide. Among others, at FAO, he is also responsible for analysis of trends in aquaculture development globally. A former teacher of the University of Colombo and the Universiti Putra Malaysia, Rohana earned his PhD from Stirling University. He has been responsible for initiating major policy changes in aquatic health management in relation to aquaculture in Asia, and globally. He currently serves as the Technical Secretary to the Sub-Committee on Aquaculture of the Committee on Fisheries of the FAO, the only global inter-governmental forum on aquaculture.
Thibaut Rodriguez
Thibaut is currently the Project Officer for “Fisheries, Natura 2000 and Marine Protected Areas” at the Regional Committee for Marine Fisheries and Aquaculture of the Languedoc-Roussillon (CRPMEM LR), based in Sète.
In this capacity, Thibaut works at engaging commercial fishermen on environment based approaches, specifically on getting to them take a stand, trying both to improve their knowledge on these approaches and to sustain their best practices and their socioeconomic importance in coastal territories. With that in view, close partnerships have been formed with the French State, local authorities, scientists and fishermen’s organisations.
He has studied indicators of sustainable development in coastal territories, and carried out a methodological guideline to evaluate environmental and socioeconomic effects of maritime uses, Thibaut applied this knowledge to his work on aquatic environmental quality at the CEPRALMAR (technical organisation supporting maritime activities in Languedoc-Roussillon) within the lagoon monitoring network of the Languedoc-Roussillon. He finally joined the CRPMEM LR at the beginning of 2009 to develop a pilot project on Natura 2000 and MPA’s.
A graduate of the National Institute of Agronomy of Rennes, Thibaut is specialises in fisheries sciences and integrated coastal zones management. A native French speaker, he also speaks English and Spanish. His interests are in sustainable development, coastal and marine environments.
Dr. Cathy Roheim
Cathy A. Roheim is a Professor of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at the University of Rhode Island with a Ph.D. in resource economics at the University of California - Davis in 1990. Her research focus has been primarily on seafood markets and international trade, with a particular focus on determining the influence of the sustainable seafood movement on international seafood markets, as well as consumer preferences for sustainable seafood. One of her publications is a book published by TRAFFIC-North America in 2007, co-authored with Gunnar Knapp and James Anderson, The Great Salmon Run: Competition between Wild and Farmed Salmon. Dr. Roheim is the Director of the University of Rhode Island Sustainable Seafood Initiative, has previously served as President of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET), and editor of the journal Marine Resource Economics. She served on the Stakeholder Advisory Council (StC) of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) from 2000-2007.
Anna Roslund
Anna has 12 years experience in the international food industry. She has worked for Nestle and the Findus Group in Scandinavia, France and UK in senior Marketing and Development positions and more recently within the Corporate Responsibility area.
Anna was a key player in the start-up of the seafood sustainability program of Findus France. Here she established collaboration with external stakeholders and initiated awareness raising public communication programs about seafood sustainability with independent experts and stakeholders such as photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand (ref: ‘Earth seen from Above); conservationist and Sustainable Fisheries Partnership founder Jim Cannon; and the Marine Stewardship Council.
In 2008 Anna became a member of the international GRI Food Sector Supplement Working Group. She was also the initiating manager of the two-year consultation process specifically developed for the seafood industry and its stakeholders under the joint governance of GRI and Seafood Choices Alliance.
Anna holds a B.Sc. in Strategic Business Management (1997) and an M.Sc. in Industrial Environmental Management where she is specialised in Food Industry Corporate Responsibility Management (2005).Carl-Christian Schmidt
Since August 2001,Mr. Carl-Christian Schmidt has been Head of the Fisheries Policies Division in the Directorate for Trade and Agriculture of the OECD. Mr. Schmidt is in charge of the OECD’s programme work related to fisheries,and oversees the operation of theOECD’s Committee for Fisheries. He is also member of the management team of the Directorate for Trade and Agriculture. He participates in a number of international forums representing the OECD and its work on fisheries, natural resource management and ocean issues. With the OECD, Mr. Schmidt has contributed to advancing the understanding of sustainable and responsible fisheries, including a wide number of fisheries management issues, and trade. He has had wide international exposure to fisheries, natural resource management and trade, through collaboration with a number of international organisations, in particular the FAO, WTO, ICES, UNEP as well as regional fisheries management bodies.
From 1979-1982 he worked for the Danish Ministry of Fisheries, and was then appointed Administrator at the OECD. He was promoted to the post of Principal Administrator in 1988. From 1997-1998, Mr. Schmidt was on leave of absence while setting up the Marine Stewardship Council based in London, a non-governmental accreditation organisation devoted to promote sustainable fisheries through certification.
Mr. Schmidt holds a Masters degree in Economics and Political Science from Copenhagen School of Economics and Business Administration and a postgraduate Certificate of Advanced European Studies from the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium. Of Danish nationality, Mr. Schmidt is married and has one daughter.
Astrid Scholz
Astrid Scholz is Vice President for Knowledge Systems at Ecotrust, a Portland, Oregon, based conservation organization committed to building a future that strengthens communities and the environment from Alaska to California. Responsible for managing Ecotrust’s consulting, analytical, technical and cartographic capacities, she oversees a staff of 15 and serves as principal investigator on a variety of projects that link social, economic and ecological systems.
Astrid is an affiliate faculty member of Oregon State University’s College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, and is the co-editor of a book on integrated marine geographic information systems, Place Matters, published by OSU Press. She serves on the boards of Habitat Media, Comunidad Y Biodiversidad, and the Living Oceans Society, and is as a member of the Master Plan Science Advisory Team to the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative in California.
She holds an M.A. in Economics and Philosophy from the University of St. Andrews, an M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Bristol, and a Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley.
Katherine Short
The myriad of life that is biodiversity under and on the water is the inspiration for Katherine’s work with WWF. An ecologist, Katherine combines her fascination and love for the marine environment with a robust approach to identifying and addressing the challenges we face in ensuring its conservation. Understanding how those reliant on the marine environment for their livelihoods can and are able to change their practices, and adopt more sustainable methods is critical to achieving this and Katherine approaches this goal with passion and honesty.
Katherine’s career with WWF began in New Zealand in 1996. She moved to WWF Australia in 1999 to promote the Marine Stewardship Council, develop WWF’s network wide approach to ecosystem-based management of fisheries and establish WWFs first regional fisheries project together with offices in New Zealand and Fiji. Moving to WWF International in 2004, she led and supported WWF’s fisheries work internationally and is now supporting the development of WWF’s global marine network initiatives.
Neil Anthony Sims
Neil Anthony Sims is the Co-founder, President and CEO of Kona Blue Water Farms, and the Founding President of the Ocean Stewards Institute. Kona Blue is the USA’s first integrated marine fish hatchery and open ocean mariculture operation, off Hawaii’s Kona Coast. The company is a leader in the expansion of the environmentally sound production of the ocean’s finest fish, producing up to 25,000 lbs per week of sashimi-grade Kona Kampachi® from their offshore deepwater site. The Ocean Stewards is a trade association that advocates for rational, considered development of offshore mariculture in the Americas.
Neil has a B.Sc. in Marine Biology / Zoology (James Cook University, 1980) and an M.Sc. in Zoology (University of New South Wales, 1990). In the 1980s, he established the Fisheries Research Division of the Cook Islands’ government, in the South Pacific. Since 1993, he has been based in Kona, Hawaii, where he has led research projects in aquaculture development that have led to – among other things – the breakthrough hatchery technology for ‘difficult-to-rear’ marine fish. This in turn led to the founding of Kona Blue, and the expansion of open ocean mariculture in America.
David Smith
David’s role with Sobeys is focused on comprehensive retail and business strategies for sustainability and health and wellness. His sustainability leadership includes engaging with numerous stakeholders to address both direct operations and the supply chain. David participates in industry sustainability committees with FMI (US; he became Chairman of the FMI Sustainability Leadership Committee during the summer of 2009), CCGD (Canada), and through several global industry organizations. His sustainability scope of action includes packaging and waste, seafood, carbon footprint, green facilities, sustainable supply chains, and enabling healthy and sustainable consumption. In his previous position with Sobeys he was General Manager of its new small urban store concept. Prior to Sobeys, David was National VP of Marketing for Whole Foods Market, Austin, Texas, during which time he was on the Organic Trade Association marketing committee, was on the inaugural Wi-Fi industry marketing committee while with a California-based wireless networking start-up, was with McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada, and was with an international franchisee for Pizza Hut and KFC. He has an undergraduate degree in biology and environmental studies and a MBA.
Dr. André Standing
Dr. André Standing is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (Cape Town, South Africa) and specialises in the issues of corruption and governance, including in the area of fisheries.
Adam Swan
Adam joined M&J Seafoods in 1995 asa Junior Buyer and became Senior Purchasing Manager focussing on shrimpwhen Brakes acquiredM&Jin 2000. Became commercial director in 2006 and now responsible for purchasing, product development and marketing of fish and seafood category in UK. Also a member of the MSC's Technical Advisory Board.
Eoin Sweeney
Eoin’s work has focussed on Natural Resource development. He managed the Marine Science & Technology programme in the National Board for Science and Technology and initiated InnovaWood, a knowledge transfer network for the Forest and Wood Industries throughout Europe. Until recently, he managed the Discovery Programme, a major component of SeaChange, the Strategic Programme for the marine sector 2007-2013, within Ireland’s Marine Institute.
He is currently Head of the newly established Ocean Energy Development Unit, created to implement the government’s strategy to accelerate development of ocean energy. The Unit is located in Sustainable Energy Ireland. In this role he is responsible for initiating and co-ordinating a wide-ranging suite of measures– developing research and test facilities, funding industry research and prototyping, developing a planning and permitting framework and commissioning expert and consultant reports, e.g. on Ocean Energy engineering infrastructure and macroeconomics. Eoin has a Masters degree in Economics from University College Dublin.
Trevor Swerdfager
Trevor Swerdfager is the Director General of the Aquaculture Management Directorate in the Fisheries and Aquaculture Management Sector of DFO in Ottawa. His group is responsible for guiding the design and delivery of national aquaculture programs. He joined DFO in November, 2007 having spent the previous two years serving as Senior Advisor, Sustainability at the Forest Products Association of Canada. Prior to that, Trevor was the Director General of the Canadian Wildlife Service in Environment Canada and has served in a variety of roles in the policy, water quality and wildlife programs of Environment Canada in Ontario, New Brunswick, Alberta, British Columbia and national headquarters. He holds a Master's in Geography from the University of Ottawa, a French Language Certificate from the University of Nice, France and a Bachelor of Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo, Ontario and Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. He is the father of three children, an active outdoors person, a hockey fanatic and an erstwhile golfer.
Purbasari Surjadi
Purbasari (Sari) Surjadi is serving the role as Chief Operating Officer COO at SFP since 2006. Sari has BSc.in marine biology and MSc. in coastal zone management and has led several marine projects in Indonesia. She also provides leadership for fisheries projects in elsewhere in South East Asia for SFP, due to her experience and relationship with marine issues in South East Asia, especially in Indonesia.
Prior to this role, Sari was deputy director of Conservation International for five years, where she managed and oversaw conservation projects in Indonesia. Sari was the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund Grant Manager for Sumatra with Conservation International where she managed a grant portfolio of ten million dollars and gained extensive experience in running small grants programs for local NGOs.
Tania Taranovski
Tania Taranovski is the Operations Manager of the New England Aquarium's Sustainable Seafood Advisory Services. Founded in 1969, the New England Aquarium is a global leader in ocean exploration and marine conservation. The Aquarium is one of the premier visitor attractions in Boston, with over 1.3 million visitors a year, and a major public education resource. The Aquarium's Sustainable Seafood Advisory Services works with some of the world's largest seafood retailers and suppliers to encourage the sustainable development of farmed and wild-caught seafood resources. The Aquarium advises these companies on issues regarding environmentally responsible seafood and facilitates proactive changes along their supply chains to favor conservation.
Ms. Taranovski manages the technical staff, projects, and corporate relationships of the Sustainable Seafood Advisory Services. Ms. Taranovski previously worked at Earthwatch Institute for eight years, where she held several roles in conservation project and program management, most recently serving as Head of Regional Field Centers. In that position, Ms. Taranovski managed the staff, budgets, and operations of three conservation-driven research initiatives, including one based in Kenya. Ms. Taranovski has worked with numerous researchers throughout south, west, and east Africa on a diversity of research projects funded by Earthwatch Institute.
Heather Tausig
Based at the New England Aquarium for almost 15 years, Heather is responsible for all programs and staff within the Conservation Department. She is the senior director of the Aquarium’s sustainable seafood programs, the Marine Conservation Action Fund, the international scientific expeditions and policy initiatives and is the senior producer of the World of Water (WOW) conservation film series. Heather has a Master’s of International Relations and Resource and Environmental Management degree from Boston University and a bachelor’s in Environmental Studies from University of California at Santa Barbara. She currently serves on the Advisory Board of University of New Hampshire’s Large Pelagics Research Center, the Advisory Board for EcoFish, and the Food Marketing Institute's Sustainable Seafood Working Group's Advisory Council.
Kristian Teleki
Kristian Teleki joined SeaWeb as Vice President for Science Initiatives in November 2009. For the last decade Kristian was the Director of the International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN), a unique global partnership dedicated to addressing the serious decline in the health of the world's coral reefs. During his tenure, Kristian had oversight for more than 40 coral reef projects in 35 countries. Project activities ranged from livelihood diversification and resource management to the prevention and mitigation of ecological degradation of coral reefs through management, monitoring and public awareness actions. In addition to his ICRAN duties, Kristian established and led the One Ocean Programme at the United Nations Environment Programme's World Conservation Monitoring Centre, designed to reflect the interconnected nature of the world's seas and its coastlines, the rich and varied biodiversity they support, and human reliance on its resources and services.
Teleki has a diverse background in marine science and conservation, and his field experience extends from the polar to tropical environments. He is particularly interested in the relationship that humans have with the ocean and promoting the sustainable use of its resources. He has degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Cambridge University.
Elisabeth Tempier
A trained economist, Elisabeth Tempier first worked on research contracts in connection with Mediterranean fisheries and industrial affairs. She then became more closely-involved with artisan fishery organizations and NGOs, working to secure recognition for smaller, diversified fishery professions and consideration for industrial affairs as an integral part of regional development policies. This led her to become part of communications initiatives such as the Encre de Mer periodical and Web site, and triggered coordination efforts with various players in fisheries and sea farming, from scientific academics to environmentalists, consumer associations, training institutes, etc.
Makthar Thiam
Mr. Makhtar Thiam is an economist and Seafood Expert at the West Africa Trade Hub, a USAID funded project based in Dakar. Makhtar Thiam has been a fish & seafood exporter for more than 20 years and managed and coordinated UPAMES (Senegalese Fish and Seafood Exporters Association) before joining the Trade Hub. The Trade Hub manages the West Africa Sustainable Seafood Alliance (WASSDA) to ensure the fish stock remains a valuable resource for generations to come.
Nina Thuellen
Nina Thuellen has worked for Greenpeace since 1998. She is a Biologist and started as a researcher for Greenpeace in Germany. She is now based in Vienna, Austria. Thuellen has been active in the Greenpeace oceans campaign in various projects, including projects on whales and on tropical farmed shrimps. She has led the consumer market work on fish sourcing policies of Austrian supermarkets. In recent years her work concentrated on campaigns involving consumers and utilizing them as a direct or indirect pressure tool, mainly with regards to markets. For Greenpeace International she has started in a role of developing consumer work on a global level. Since 2006 she has coordinated Greenpeace's global work on seafood markets.
Dr. Reidar Toresen
Reidar Toresen is currently research director at the Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway. He has twenty five years experience as a fishery scientist where he has studied fishery biology, fish population dynamics, long term changes in fish abundance in relation to climate change, and sources of error in fish stock abundance estimation. He holds a PhD in fishery biology. Toresen has extensive experience as a cruise leader and has led several scientific surveys at sea, both in Nordic waters and off the west coast of Africa. He has also been engaged in fish stock assessment and has extensive experience participating in various expert groups in the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas. He is currently the Norwegian member of the ICES advisory committee, ACOM, which is the committee giving science based advice for fishery management in the North East Atlantic. Toresen has also, for a number of years, been engaged in fish abundance estimation, fish stock assessment and management of fish resources in developing countries. He has been engaged in projects in the Peoples Republic of China, Viet Nam, and in several west-African countries. He chaired the FAO working group for the assessment of pelagic fish stocks off Northwest Africa for six years, and he was the first chairman of the scientific committee in the South East Atlantic Fishery Organization (SEAFO). Toresen has also been advisor for fishery managers dealing with fish stocks in several of the large marine ecosystems in the North East Atlantic.
Poul Torring
Poul Torring was born in 1948 and achieved a Masters in Economics from the University of Copenhagen in 1973. He then worked for the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1973 to 1979, including a stint as the Danish representative to the EU in Brussels working on the Common Fisheries Policy from 1976-1979. From 1979 to 1990 he acted as Secretary General Associate of Danish Fish Processing Industry and Exporters and then from 1990 to 1995 he was the Managing Director of Foodmark A/S, which at the time was a large Danish Fish processing group. For 10 years (1995-2005) he owned the fish net producer Utzon. Since 2006 he has been with GEMBA Seafood Consulting. GEMBA consults on projects concerning seafood marketing and markets, ports and port development, aquaculture and fisheries but also on communication issues for the government.
Dr. Carol Turley
Dr Carol Turley has 30 years experience in marine biogeochemistry and works at Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). She has managed a UK wide Community Research Project Biogeochemical Ocean Flux Study (BOFS), the UK contribution to JGOFS, part of the International Global Biosphere Programme. BOFS investigated the natural controls on atmospheric CO2 levels and involved 138 scientists and 14 UK participants.
Over the past six years she has led UK NERC funded Core Strategic Science Programmes (Restricted Exchange Environments, Microbially Driven Biogeochemistry and currently Biogeochemistry) which have covered a broad range of environments from estuaries, to shelf seas to the deep oceans and wide range of organisms from microbes to fish which has given her a depth and breadth of experience that few scientists are fortunate to accomplish.
She is currently working on the impact of ocean acidification, due to ocean uptake of carbon dioxide produced by human activity, on the organisms, on biodiversity and on marine ecosystems. She has given advice on this topic to Government, Parliament, NGOs, agencies, media as well as to international organisations such as the UNFCCC, EU, G8 and conventions for the protection of seas (OSPAR, London Convention). She is also leading a group investigating the potential environmental impact of carbon capture and sub-sea bed storage should there be a leakage of CO2.
Dr Turley is a member of the Royal Society working group on ocean acidification which published the report in June 2005 and an OSPAR biodiversity working group on the same topic which reported in 2006. She was a member of the International Scientific Steering Committee for the Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research Programme (IMBER), a Lead Writer for Working Group II of the IPCC 4th Assessment on Climate Change on Ecosystems, Their Properties, Goods and Services and is a member of the EU FP7 consortium programme on ocean acidification (EPOCA).
She has around 80 papers in peer review journals, special issues or books and a further 80 publications in the form of reports or articles.
Peter Tyedmers
Peter Tyedmers is an ecological economist with a fondness for food (and seafood in particular). As a result, his research primarily explores the biophysical sustainability of our food systems – essentially he’s interested in quantifying the material and energy requirements of the systems we employ to feed ourselves and how these inputs contribute to large scale environmental change. Ongoing research interests include better understanding the energy performance of capture fisheries globally, the environmental consequences of technological substitutions and identifying opportunities to improve the environmental performance of food systems generally. Recent projects have employed life cycle assessment to evaluate the resource and environmental implications of salmon fishing and farming systems globally (undertaken with colleagues from Sweden and the US), lobster and herring fisheries management in Nova Scotia and Maine, Antarctic krill and Alaskan pollock fisheries product supply chains, alternative dairying systems, and Nova Scotia wine production.
Peter earned his Ph.D. from the Resource Management and Environmental Studies program at the University of British Columbia where he compared the biophysical costs of salmon fishing and farming in British Columbia, Canada. Prior to undertaking his Ph.D., Peter received a B.Sc. in Earth Science from the University of Waterloo and an LL.B. from the University of British Columbia.
Peter is appointed as an Associate Professor in the School for Resource and Environmental Studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Leo van Mulekom
Leo van Mulekom works in Oxfam Novib. Oxfam Novib (a member of Oxfam International) is a developmental civil society organisation in the Netherlands dedicated to “global justice and an end to poverty”. Leo is based in The Hague, but his work focuses on Asia. Within Oxfam he is a member of a team dedicated to analising the positive and negative influences private sector practices may have on rural poverty. In this capacity he works on the value chains of commodities produced in Asia and imported into the EU. For several years he has been involved in dialogues with the aquaculture sector and focused therein on the, on-farm and off-farm, effects aquaculture may have on those who work on the farms, and on the communities surrounding the farms. He is an advocate for corporate social responsibility on such effects.
Before joining Oxfam, Leo has worked for over a decade in various countries in SE Asia inside projects of SE Asian NGOs and governments committed to improving livelihood and life of small-scale fishing communities. It is from field-experiences like these, combined with his insights in the international value chain, that Leo will present some ‘easy tips & tricks’ on how to build sustained and mutually beneficial relationships with small-scale farmers.Jose Villalon
Jose Villalon, a 27-year veteran of the aquaculture industry, has been the director of World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) aquaculture program since mid-2007. Villalon’s primary role is to oversee the Aquaculture Dialogues, a set of multi-stakeholder groups developing global standards for certifying aquaculture products. The standards will help minimize the key environmental and social impacts associated with aquaculture.
Prior to coming to WWF, Villalon operated his own consulting business in Mazatlan, Mexico for five years. The firm worked with private industry on technical shrimp production protocols and farm accounting systems. It also developed and marketed a line of shrimp-based products for a canning company. Previously, Villalon operated a 470-acre shrimp farm in Mazatlan for two years.
Villalon’s career also includes five years at AquaNova, which operated a shrimp feed mill and processing plant. His responsibilities included overseeing new product development and market penetration in Europe and Japan.
His career began in Guayaquil, Ecuador, working at Marine Harvest International from 1983 -1994. His roles there included vice president/technical director of shrimp farm production, with bottom-line accountability for its hatchery, feed mill, and farm operations.
Villalon holds a Master of Science degree in fisheries biology from the University of Washington in Seattle and a Bachelor of Science degree in biological sciences from Florida International University. He is a former member of the World Aquaculture Society’s (WAS) Board of Directors and a former vice president of WAS’ Latin American chapter. He also served as a board member for the Ecuadorian Aquaculture Feed Manufacturers Association.Craig Watson
Craig Watson is Vice President of Agricultural Sustainability for SYSCO Corporation. Mr. Watson received his Bachelor of Science degree in Animal Science (1974) and his Master of Science in Meat Science (1976) from Iowa State University. Most of Mr. Watson’s career was spent leading the Quality Assurance department into what it is today. The Sysco Quality Assurance team is responsible for product development, global supplier approval, and the development and implementation of quality systems to ensure product consistency and food safety of approved sources of supply. Most recently, Mr. Watson’s responsibilities have moved into the area of agricultural sustainability. Areas of sustainable focus include seafood sustainability, life cycle assessment, global social audit review, integrated pest management and local food procurement from small/medium sized family farms. A recent local food initiative includes coordination of learning work with the Wallace Center.
Tim Wilson
Tim is a leading expert in supply-chain transparency. He co-founded Historic Futures (HF) in 2003 to develop web-based technologies and processes to allow visibility through extended supply-chains, from retailer to primary producer. Tim has worked on "field to fork" traceability and product integrity for more than 12 years, gaining real-world experience across multiple sectors including food, apparel and pharmaceuticals. HF is working with major retailers and brand-owners including Walmart, Tesco and IKEA on environmental and social issues in dynamic, global supply-chains. Its focus is on the development of toolsets to enable fast and efficient collection of product and process information throughout the supply-chain.
Dr. Frans Witte
Since 1974 Frans Witte has studied morphology, taxonomy, ecology, fishery and biodiversity of haplochromine cichlids and other fish from Lake Victoria. From 1977 till 1982, as a member of the Haplochromis Ecology Survey Team (HEST), he was living in Nyegezi, Tanzania, from where he carried out field work on the lake. In 1982 Frans became co-ordinator of HEST at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands and in 1987 he finished his PhD thesis, titled From Form to Fishery. His current research is focussed on adaptive responses to environmental changes in fish from Lake Victoria, and he is supervising two PhD projects on this subject. Together with other HEST members and researchers of the Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute he has published more than 100 scientific papers on Lake Victoria, including a book, Fish Stocks and Fisheries of Lake Victoria.
Frans Witte is a researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Biology Leiden (Leiden University) and a guest researcher at the National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis, in Leiden.
Simon Woodsworth
Of dual French and Canadian citizenship, Simon is currently a Project Officer at the Environment Department of the Languedoc-Roussillon Regional Council, based in Montpellier (in the South of France).
In this capacity, Simon works on sustainable development policies, focusing on biodiversity conservation in policy-planning. He thereby works on governance processes for the management of natural sites and species, and especially on integrated coastal zone management.
Having worked on the economic development of protected areas for the Languedoc-Roussillon Conservatory of Natural Sites, Simon joined the Regional Committee for Marine Fisheries and Aquaculture of the Languedoc-Roussillon (CRPMEM LR) at the beginning of 2007 with the aim of implementing European legislation (management plans of the Common Fisheries Policy, Natura 2000, etc.). He was then Policy Coordinator of the CRPMEM LR until may 2009, when he joined the Regional Council.
A graduate of the Institute of Political Science of Aix-en-Provence, Simon completed his studies in public policy and communication with a dual Masters degree in environmental management and local development.
Helene York
Helene York is Director of the Bon Appétit Management Company Foundation, based in California, whose mission is to educate chefs and consumers about how their food choices affect the global environment. The position allows her to blend her passions for great food, resource conservation, and scientific integrity, and to deploy them on a national scale through implementation of Bon Appetit’s initiatives. She is the architect of the company’s Low Carbon Diet programme, announced in April 2007, whose purpose is to raise awareness of the connection between the food system and climate change using best-available science as the basis for corporate decision-making and reduce emissions associated with the company’s food service operations by 25% over 5 years. One of the program’s elements is to stop purchasing air-freighted seafood in favor of fresh-regional or frozen-at-sea and shipped.
Previously she helped build the business case for sustainable seafood for Compass Group-North America, Bon Appétit’s parent company, which announced a policy in February 2006 reflective of the Common Vision. The policy has resulted in a shift of over one million pounds of unsustainable seafood from being purchased each year. Helene helped manage implementation of that policy, and shared insights from the experience with the conservation community to help build its capacity to influence other major seafood buyers in the food service industry.
Helene is a founding board member of the nonprofit FishChoice.com, an online resource for chefs to locate sustainable seafood supplies, and a weekly contributor to the online Food Channel of The Atlantic Monthly.James Young
James Young is Professor of Applied Marketing in the Marketing Division, Stirling Management School at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He has over 30 years of international experience working both in the fish industry and fisheries & aquaculture research, consultancy and education, including marketing chain analysis, market information systems, value addition and differentiation, food security and forecasting, species and fish product innovations, branding, certification, organic and green consumer impacts upon the changing markets for fish.
He has led and participated in a wide range of research and consultancy projects for public and private sector organisations including UN FAO, EU European Commission, European Parliament, IPTS, World Bank IFC, UK ODA / DFID, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, MAFF, DEFRA, Scottish Office, Highlands & Islands Enterprise, Scottish Enterprise, Research Council of Norway, Norwegian Seafood Export Council, Norges Rafislag and WWF amongst others. He has been appointed to a number of research, teaching and advisory posts attached to NFH, University of Tromso & SNF, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen, Norway; University do Algarve, Portugal; CIHEAM, Zaragoza, Spain.
He is a Visiting Professor at Nofima Market, Tromso and Chair of the Fish Sustainability Information Group. Current projects include: differentiation in salmon farmed in Scotland, Chile and Norway; analysis of the value chain for farmed fish products in China, Vietnam, Thailand & Bangladesh; emergent certification standards in farmed fish in developing countries; the expansion of pangasius exports from Vietnam; local warmwater UK fish production and strategic developments in EU international fish supplies and markets.
Konstantin Zgurovsky
After many years of research experience at the Pacific Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (TINRO) and consultancies in the Russian fishery sector, Konstantin joined WWF- Russia in 1999 as a field coordinator. He became more involved in WWF-Russia’s marine work and was designated the Russia Marine Program Coordinator in 2007, where he coordinates and manages conservation work in the Barents and the Bering seas. Konstantin was also active in the creation of a Public Advisory Council under the Russian Federal Fisheries Agency and, in 2009 he was elected as the sole representative of NGOs in the Council.
Friederike Ziegler
Friederike Ziegler is a marine biologist with PhD from SIK, The Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology in collaboration with Göteborg University. Her research was about applying Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology to seafood products from capture fisheries. LCA is an ISO standardised method for environmental assessment of products and processes from cradle-to-grave, in the case of seafood products from extraction of raw materials used in the fishery or in fish farming to consumption of the products and waste treatment. She pioneered the field of environmental assessment of seafood products doing some of the first seafood LCAs and developed indicators for the assessment of fishery-specific types of environmental impact such as seafloor impacts of fishing and discarding. Her thesis was defended in 2006. She has continued her work at SIK and now works both on research projects and contract work aimed at making seafood production a more sustainable business. She has participated in two international research projects studying global salmon production and Norwegian seafood production. She has also assisted on with numerous smaller studies to help various organisations forward in their environmental work. Recently, her work has been focused on the carbon footprint of seafood products, however she believes that there is a need for more holistic ways to describe the environmental impact of seafood products. In the next few years Friederike expects to work on the development of indicators to describe the biological impact of fishing and aquaculture and she would also like to explore the role of fisheries management in the environmental impact of fisheries.
Tuna Workshop Speakers
- Andrew Bassford, Fishes
- Henk Brus, Sustunable bv
- Dr. Alain Fonteneau, Institut de Recherches pour le Développement
- Dr. Martin Hall, Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission
- Susan Jackson, International Seafood Sustainability Foundation
- Miguel Angel Jorge, WWF International
- Phil Kline, Greenpeace USA
- Gerald Leape, Pew Environment Group
- Rebecca Lent, NOAA
- Gala Moreno, AZTI Tecnalia
- Sylvester Pokajam, National Fisheries Authority, Paupa New Guinea
- Dr. Mark Powell, WWF
- Charles Redfern, Organico Realfoods & Fish4Ever
- Len Rodwell, Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency
- Lagi Toribau, Greenpeace Australia
Andrew Bassford
Andrew’s background is varied - from being an outdoor adventurer & rafting guide to restaurant design. Although his professional life has primarily been about food and wine, his passion for the environment has taken him towards being hands on with protecting our oceans and environment.
Andrew’s passion for fish started in London, where he was the Managing Director for a restaurant group named Fish!. This passion led to obsession, trying to source the most sustainable options possible. Leading him to move to the Netherlands to team up with a then small operator, Bart van Olphen, to develop a completely sustainable fish wholesale company named Fishes. In two years Fishes developed into a retail brand and wholesale company. Still a small company, they knew their next step was to merge the operation to allow further growth.
Although still part of the Fishes directional team, Andrew is now establishing a foundation. With Andrew’s determination, obsession and access to the market this will allow the foundation to get involved with many fisheries wanting to be sustainable. The role of the foundation is to help with funding, capacity and ultimately creating market access and market awareness.
Over the coming five years Andrew’s ambition is to grow the foundation with the capacity to work on five projects a year, both wild capture and aquaculture. “Although a lot of what we have destroyed is irreversible, we should not loose hope and focus on the small steps we can all make…..I am a true believer that we all can make a difference.”Henk Brus
Henk Brus was born in the Netherlands in 1957 as son of canned foods importer. After he finished his studies in social sciences – he became a family therapist in 1980. In 1987 he decided to apply his problem solving and communication skills to the commercial sector and accepted a position as junior sales man with the international canned fish importer MCM Foods bv. in the Netherlands From 1992 to 1998 he was vice-president of the company During this period he expanded the company European presence especially in the canned tuna market.
In 1998 he founded his own company Atuna bv – a global tuna trading company covering the total vertical supply chain. It website atuna.com is the worlds leading internet portal on tuna. In 2000 he was one of the co-founders of the WTPO – the World Tuna Purse Seiner Organization, and is a speaker at major conferences over the last 15 years – and Co-chairman of the World Tuna Conferences.
Early 2007 he founded a new company named Sustunable bv – which is seeks a “Responsible Business Approach Towards Tuna sourcing” . Sustunable is now supplier to over 15 supermarket formulas throughout Europe of tuna which meets the highest environmental and social standards, and provides consumers full online “Boat to Throat” traceability per each individual tuna can.
Dr. Alain Fonteneau
Dr. Alain Fonteneau, is a French scientist at the Institut de Recherches pour le Développement and he has been working on tuna and billfish biology and stock assessment since the early 1970s. His research has mainly been targeting tropical tunas, but also temperate species such as albacore and bluefin, and also billfishes, using a comparative ecosystem approach concerning the pelagic oceans worldwide. Dr. Fonteneau has played an active role in ICCAT’s scientific work, participating in most of the SCRS meetings since the early 1970s and being SCRS chairman for four years. His comparative analysis of the tuna stocks and fisheries world wide cover the entire period 1950 to now, and is based on a standardized world data base of all catch and effort data available. Dr. Fonteneau is presently working in Sète, France, and is carrying out comparative analysis and modeling of world tuna fisheries by fishing gear, and environmental interactions in the pelagic ecosystems, primarily in the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Dr. Fonteneau has been an active participant in the scientific committees of the five tuna RFMOs, and he has published several papers on various tuna fisheries matters worldwide.
Dr. Martin Hall
Martin Hall has served as head of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission Tuna-Dolphin Program based at La Jolla, California, since 1984, and has been a marine fisheries researcher, instructor, scholar, and manager since 1970.
Under his leadership, the IATTC Tuna-Dolphin Program expanded its international observer program from 3 percent to 100 percent coverage from 1984 to 1992 to become the world’s second-largest observer program and help to reduce dolphin mortality from more than 130,000 individuals in 1986 to fewer than 900 in 2006 while maintaining fishing operations at high levels of production.
Martin has also been instrumental in developing bycatch reduction strategies, including the first bycatch management system based on individual vessel quotas, and in initiating a multinational program to reduce sea turtle bycatch along the Pacific Coast of America. He played a central role in reaching the 19-nation Agreement for the International Dolphin Conservation Program.
Among numerous advisory, consulting, and invited expert roles, Martin chaired the steering committee of the recent International Seafood Sustainability Foundation global workshop on tuna bycatch in purse seine fisheries on FADS. He is widely and frequently published, invited to lecture, and called on to organize courses and conferences.
Martin earned a licenciado in Biological Sciences in 1973 at the University of Buenos Aires and a Ph.D. in Fisheries in 1982 at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Susan Jackson
Susan Jackson is President of the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF), a global partnership among scientists, tuna processors and environmental non-profits to undertake science-based initiatives for the long-term conservation and sustainable use of tuna stocks, reducing by-catch and promoting a healthy marine ecosystem.
Prior to joining ISSF, Jackson was the Vice President for Government/Industry Relations and Seafood Sourcing for Del Monte Foods, where her responsibilities included government relations at the Federal, State and Local levels, and acting as Del Monte’s representative to trade and industry associations. Jackson was also responsible for the purchase of all raw tuna and tuna co-pack manufacturing for Del Monte’s StarKist brand. Jackson joined the H.J. Heinz Company in 1997 as an Attorney in the Law Department, later working with the company’s seafood sourcing and other areas of procurement.
Jackson graduated from The University of Notre Dame in 1986 with a B.S. in Economics and obtained her law degree from Duke University in 1990.Miguel Angel Jorge
Miguel Jorge leads the development of policies, positions and strategic direction on a wide variety of marine issues across WWF’s global network, which is active in marine conservation in over 50 countries. With his team, Jorge provides strategic and technical input into WWF’s large-scale marine and fisheries conservation initiatives around the world, oversees the European Fisheries Policy Program, and WWF’s high seas conservation program.
Jorge has represented WWF at numerous intergovernmental forums and institutions such as the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, the OECD and the World Bank. He has managed community-based marine resource management projects, carried out marine habitat assessments and helped governments develop marine pollution, protected area, and tourism policies. He also has extensive experience in planning, ecotourism development, aquaculture and artisanal fisheries management.
Jorge has a Bachelor’s in Aquatic Biology from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a Master’s of Marine Policy from the University of Delaware and training in cross-sectoral planning and collaboration from the MIT Sloan School of Business.
Phil Kline
Phil Kline worked as a commercial fisherman for more than 29 years before joining Greenpeace as a Senior Oceans Campaigner in 2007. Phil’s interest in the environment, had always been strong, but a turning point arrived in the late 1990s when he began witnessing the depletion of fish populations and the fisheries began shutting down.
Highlights of his career include lobby work promoting changes in support of sustainable fisheries under the Magnuson-Stevens Act in the mid 1990s, leading up to the passage of the “Sustainable Fisheries Act” in 1996. Much later, Phil’s hard work crafting public policy reaped rewards when language protecting deep sea corals and sponges from destructive bottom trawling was signed into law by President Bush in 2007 during the reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Act. .
Phil honed his policymaking skills while serving as the Fisheries Program Director with the American Oceans Campaign and later as Senior Fisheries Policy Advisor for Oceana. Recently in Brussels, Phil was a part of an international Greenpeace team promoting sustainable fisheries at “the world’s largest industrial seafood show.”
He is a founding member of the Pacific Marine Conservation Council and served on its board from 1997 to 2005. More recently, he was elected co-chair of the Marine Fish Conservation Network9MFCN), a national collaboration for sustainable fisheries.
Gerald Leape
Gerald Leape is a Senior Officer at the Pew Environment Group. At the Pew Environment Group, his primary focus is on international marine issues; conserving krill, reforming carnivorous finfish aquaculture, global tuna conservation, campaigning for US ratification of the UN Treaty on the Law of the Sea.
Gerry has been involved in the oceans community since 1989. Before joining the Pew Environment Group in 2008, Gerry served as the Vice President for Marine Conservation at the National Environmental Trust where he oversaw a collection of campaigns on ocean issues, including but not limited to, domestic fisheries reform, reducing illegal fishing globally, reforming aquaculture and saving Chilean Sea Bass. Prior to coming to NET, Gerry spent 11 years at Greenpeace as their head of Government affairs and Director of the whales campaign.
Gerry’s opinion pieces have appared in more than seventy five papers across the country and has appeared on NPR, NBC, ABC and Fox affiliates across the country. Gerry has a Masters of Public Administration from the George Washington University and a Bacheor of Arts from Cornell University.
Dr. Rebecca Lent
Dr. Rebecca Lent has served since July 2005 as director of the NOAA Office of International Affairs, an office newly created at the time due to the increasing importance of international fisheries issues. She had been deputy assistant administrator for regulatory programs at NOAA Fisheries, a position she had held since 2001. In that capacity, Rebecca reviewed all NOAA Fisheries’ proposed regulatory actions, including those to support protected resources, sustainable fisheries, and habitat conservation in both the national and international arenas.
Rebecca joined NOAA in 1992, serving as the economist for and later chief of the Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Management Division. She has broad experience in dealing with a wide variety of controversial fishery management issues affecting fishermen, conservationists, business, and communities.
Rebecca was appointed Southwest Regional Administrator for NOAA in 2000 and in this capacity directed the agency’s fisheries management and science programs in the southwestern United States, Hawaii, and the U.S. Trust Territories.
She earned her Ph.D. in resource economics from Oregon State University in 1984 and holds a master’s degree in economics (1978) and a bachelor’s degree (1975).
Gala Moreno
Gala Moreno is a senior researcher in the Fisheries Technology and Tuna Fisheries Section of the Marine Research Division of AZTI Tecnalia.
In her current position, Gala serves as the AZTI head of the four-year project MADE: Mitigating Adverse Ecological Impacts of Open Ocean Fisheries and as the leader of two work groups. The four-year project runs to 2011. Most recently, she served as AZTI head of project GAP: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Stakeholders. Gala has served as project head or researcher on numerous other research projects, related predominantly to tuna and technology associated with fishing and fisheries management.
A frequent invited presenter at technical conferences and widely published on topics including fish behavior, FADS and environmental effects on bluefin tuna, Gala has been a member of the fisheries acoustic science and technology working group of ICES since 2005. She has been an advisor and invited expert at multiple working groups of ICCAT and WCPFC. Gala has taught university-level courses on FADS, eco-ethology of pelagic species and hydro acoustics for pelagic species monitoring. She has spent a total of one year out of the last ten on multiple scientific cruises.
Gala earned a doctoral degree in tuna behavior around drifting FADS and a bachelor’s of marine science at the University of Las Palmas and a master’s at the University of Leioa.
Sylvester Pokajam
Mr. Sylvester Pokajam is the Managing Director of the National Fisheries Authority in Papua New Guinea, a Government Regulatory Body. He has held this position for the last five years and having previously been the Financial Controller for the organisation since 2002. The National Fisheries Authority is charged with the responsibility of effectively managing our Fisheries and Marine Resources for Sustainable and Equitable Benefits. The past years have seen steady and continuous growth in onshore investment for seafood processing and the next stage is to continue to promote investment and employment in the sector and, at the same time, to continue with efforts to ensure equitable sustainable benefits through effective resource management and development. Mr. Pokajam through his leadership and experience in implementing key regional and international agreements and management measures has made Papua New Guinea and other Pacific Islands more fully aware when negotiating with their development partners. Under his leadership the PNG National Fisheries Authority has become the only competent authority in the Pacific and the use of the Vessel Days Scheme (VDS) as a management tool in managing the tuna resources sustainably in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean has gained prominence.
Mr. Sylvester Pokajam is an Accountant by profession and holds a Post Graduate Diploma from the University of New England, NSW, Australia.
Dr. Mark Powell
Dr. Mark Powell is Global Seafood Leader for WWF international. In this role, he works with WWF staff and seafood businesses around the world on advancing sustainable fisheries.
Prior to joining WWF, Powell developed and led fish conservation and sustainable seafood programs for Ocean Conservancy for 10 years, including working with governments, businesses and individuals, and also ran a consulting business focused on managing fish and watersheds with clients that included governments, businesses, and NGOs.
Powell earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, while working at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He has worked as an Assistant Professor of Marine Sciences at the University of Connecticut, and as a postdoctoral researcher at the Hopkins Marine Station and Bodega Marine Laboratory.
Charles Redfern
Charles Redfern is the founder and managing director of Organico Realfoods, a UK based company which strives to work ethically in as comprehensive a way as possible. This £2million company is a minnow by food industry standards but works to promote and represent smallerproducers, growers or manufacturers, subscribing to the values of the slow food movement: "good, clean and fair" foods. Fish4Ever is a9 year old brand and has pioneered sustainability in the area of canned fish in the UK combining a commitment to "land, sea and people" sustainability with an emphasis on high quality. Charles Redfern is a graduate of the LSE, fellow of the RSA and member of the Soil Association and IFOAM.
Len Rodwell
Len Rodwell is the Director of Fisheries Development at the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA). He has held this post for the past three years having previously been the Manager of Economics and Marketing beginning in 1999. The Development Division of FFA is responsible for assisting FFA Members in the development of their domestic tuna industries, primarily through the introduction of sustainable development strategies and associated investment policies. Mr Rodwell has over 25 years experience working on Pacific Island Pacific fisheries, with the majority of that time being spent on oceanic fisheries.
Lagi Toribau
Lagi Toribau is team leader for Greenpeace Australia Pacific Oceans Campaign based in Fiji. He has been working on oceans issues in the Pacific for the last 7 years and has been leading Greenpeace's delegations to Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) and subsidiary meetings since 2004. He has lead three Greenpeace ship expedition's in the Pacific targeting pirate fishing and tuna overfishing in the high seas and the EEZs of the Pacific and leads Greenpeace's activities and policies in the Pacific across the 17 FFA member countries. He is part of the regional and international Greenpeace team campaigning for sustainable and equitable seafood procurement across Europe, Asia and the USA.
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