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Assistant Professor of Seafood Sustainability and Ethics, Heriot-Watt University

I am an economic development leader and researcher on sustainable systems using a seafood lens, with expertise in the public, private, non-profit sectors and academia, delivering programmes that improve sustainability, trade, governance and management.

As well as being an Assistant Professor at The Lyell Centre for land and marine conservation, geology and geoscience at the University of Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh, I am Principal Project Director for the FCDO-funded Nepal Renewable Energy Programme (NREP), a 4.5 year, £18 million programme that commenced in February 2019, supporting the Government of Nepal and the private sector plan and invest in a low-carbon development path resulting in economic growth, poverty reduction and climate-smart development, including the provision of renewable energy to 95,000 households, 500 small businesses and 200 schools and health centres.

Experience

  • –present
    Assistant Professor of Seafood Sustainability and Ethics, Heriot-Watt University

Education

  • 2013 
    University of Stirling, PhD in Sustainable Ethical Aquatic Trade