High Impact Science-Public Policy Presentations

2020

  • New York, NY. February 7, 2020: The state of the worldโ€™s oceans and the landscape of global fisheries subsidies: achieving SDG Target 14.6. Life Below Water: Achieving SDG Target 14.6 by June, Pew Charitable Trusts.

2019

  • Madrid, Spain. December 6, 2019: How can ending overfishing help mitigate climate change? Our Fish Event, COP25; Madrid, Spain.
  • Oslo, Friday June 14 (3 โ€“ 4pm): Why Norway should be at the forefront of the push for a WTO agreement on harmful subsidies - Meeting with Norwegian Government (Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
  • Oslo, Friday June 14 (12:30 โ€“ 2pm): Why Chileโ€™s laudable ocean conservation effort should take on subsidies disciplines - Lunch meeting with Chilean Ambassador to Norway and other ambassadors.
  • Berlin, Thursday June 13, 2019: Why Germany should push for a WTO agreement on harmful subsidies - German Gov't Meetings with WWF Germany.
  • Brussels, Wednesday June 12, 2019 (3 โ€“ 5 pm): Why ACP countries should push for a WTO agreement on harmful subsidies - ACP Secretariat Presentation.
  • Brussels, Wednesday June 12, 2019 (10 โ€“ 12 noon): Informal lunch discussion with Karlijn from Adessium (funder of the European Listening Tour).
  • Brussels, Wednesday June 12, 2019 (10 โ€“ 12 noon): Why Europe should push for a WTO agreement on harmful subsidies - Public Briefing.
  • Geneva, Tuesday June 11, 2019 (6 โ€“ 8 pm): Wrap-up comment @ Reception in WTO atrium. Audience: WTO trade negotiators, WTO Secretariat staff.
  • Geneva, Tuesday June 11, 2019 (5 โ€“ 6 pm): Why WTO Negotiators should push for a WTO agreement on harmful subsidies โ€“ Australia, Latin 6, New Zealand and Brazil Delegates.
  • Geneva, Tuesday June 11, 2019 (4 โ€“ 5 pm): Why India should push for a WTO agreement on harmful subsidies. India Delegates.
  • Geneva, Switzerland, June 11, 2019 (3 โ€“ 4 pm). Why the Africa, Caribbean, Pacific Group (ACP) should push for a WTO agreement on harmful subsidies. ACP Geneva Delegates.
  • Geneva, Switzerland, June 11, 2019 (1 โ€“ 3 pm). Why WTO negotiators should push for a WTO agreement on harmful subsidies. 100 WTO Trade Negotiators/Delegates, some non-profit representatives.
  • Geneva, Switzerland, June 11, 2019 (11:30 am โ€“ 12:45 pm). Why LDCs should push for a WTO agreement on harmful subsidies. WTO Trade Negotators, the LDC Group.
  • Geneva, Switzerland, June 11, 2019 (10:30 โ€“ 11:30 am). Why WTO negotiators should push for a WTO agreement on harmful subsidies.
  • Geneva, Switzerland, June 11, 2019 (8 โ€“ 10:00 am). Why ambassadors should push for a WTO agreement on harmful subsidies. Ambassadorsโ€™ Breakfast.
  • London, UK, June 10, 2019: Why the UK should push for a WTO agreement on harmful subsidies. UKGOV and Commonwealth Secretariat.
  • Roatรกn, Honduras, June 6-7, 2019: with Herrera, Claudia; Vanderbeck, Isabelle. Innovative solutions for integrated management and sustainable use of marine resources. Green Solutions for a Blue Planet, Blue Economy Summit.
  • London, UK, June 5, 2019: A question of economics. A Global Agreement for the High Seas, Blue Marine Foundation. Also, High seas management: a regional, global or hybrid approach? Breakout group, A Global Agreement for the High Seas, Blue Marine Foundation.
  • Mauritius, May 27, 2019: What would you tell WHITE HOUSE on Oceans; how would you prepare for it? UNEP Nairobi Convention, WIO Regional Science to Policy Workshop.
  • San Diego, CA, January 11, 2019: Interdisciplinary collaborative ocean economics research with examples from the โ€˜ocean trenches.โ€™ Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (CMBC), Scripps Institution of Oceanography 6th Annual Knowlton-Jackson Distinguished Speaker Lecture Event.

2018

  • Singapore, April 27, 2018: Doomsday analysis - the economic, social, and food security outcomes of IUU fishing. APEC Experts Workshop on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing.
  • Cambridge University, March 27-29, 2018: The conservation and fair sharing of ocean and fishery resources: Contributions from fisheries economics. Plenary speaker at the 2018 Student Conference on Conservation Science.
  • Warsaw, March 8-10, 2018: Effect of plastic in the ocean. European Young Leaders Summit.
  • New York, March 2, 2018: The oceans are too large to ignore. Ocean Luminaries event, American Museum of Natural History (Sold Out crowd).
  • Brussels, February 21, 2018: The Oceans are Our lives. Seminar presentation to Members of the European Parliament and the EU commissioner for the Environment and Fisheries.

2017

  • Stockholm, November 29, 2017: Fair sharing of the global ocean: climate change, subsidies and large-scale protection. Volvo Environmental Prize Seminar.
  • Victoria, BC, November 7, 2017: First Nations Fisheries Council (120 participants; 70 different First Nations groups).

2016

  • Washington, DC, September 15-16, 2016: Our Ocean Conference hosted by Secretary John Kerry, with presentation by President Barack Obama. I was the scene-setter for the Sustainable Fisheries Panel.
  • Rome, March, 9, 2016: Invited speaker at The 10X20 Initiative Conference on MPAs on โ€œScientific Consensus on MPA Financingโ€. Guest of the Foreign Minister of Italy.
  • Rome, March, 7, 2016: Invited speaker at The 10X20 Initiative Conference on MPAs on โ€œMPA Financing: Why invest in MPAsโ€. Guest of the Foreign Minister of Italy.

2015

  • Nairobi, December, 16, 2015: Trade and Development Symposium at the WTO Ministerial Meeting, on โ€œE15 policy options on oceans and fisheriesโ€.
  • Hong Kong, November, 3, 2015: Royal Geographical Society of Hong Kong Seminar on โ€œDiminishing fish stocks diminishing fortunes from the SCSโ€.
  • Valparaiso, Chile, October 5, 2015: Secretary John Kerryโ€™s Our Oceans Conference on the โ€œBenefits of managing ocean living resources sustainablyโ€.
  • Geneva, Sep 29, 2015: UNCTAD and ComSec AHEM Meeting on Trade in Sustainable Fisheries, on โ€œSubsidies weaken the sustainability of global fisheries while increasing inequality among fishersโ€.
  • Victoria, B.C., November 26, 2015: Invited speaker at the 2015 Royal Society of Canada Symposium: โ€œSocial license and marine biodiversityโ€.
  • Washington D.C., November 17, 2015: โ€œCongressional Briefing on the fisheries subsidies provisions in Environment Chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.
  • Valparaiso, Chile, October 6, 2015: Invited talk to the Board of Directors of Oceana (a leading global NGO): โ€œSubsidies, sustainability and inequality among fishersโ€.
  • San Jose, USA, March 17, 2015: โ€œThe quest for ocean sustainability: A new role for the high seas?โ€ AAAS Annual Meeting.

2014

  • Addis Ababa, September 15, 2014: โ€œThe economic and social rationale for the establishment of a Pan African Blue Ocean Instituteโ€. AU-GOC-AfDB Meeting, African Union Headquarters.
  • Valparaiso, July 3, 2014: โ€œHow do we cope with social and economic pressure of the fishing crisis?โ€ International seminar: Fisheries crisis in Chile: the challenge of turning the tide.
  • Geneva, April 28-29, 2014: โ€œFishing for the future: trends and issues in global fisheries tradeโ€. Presentation to the E15 Expert Group on Oceans, Fisheries and the Trade System.
  • Kuwait, December 17-18, 2014: โ€œGlobal Food Security and Climate Change from a Socio-Economic Perspectiveโ€. Food Security and Climate Change Workshop.
  • Kochi, December 5, 2014: โ€œChallenges in property rights & marine fisheries management: An economist's perspectiveโ€.
  • Vancouver, March 29, 2014: โ€œThe sustainability of the global oceanโ€. Vancouver Institute Public Lecture.
  • New York, February 18, 2014: โ€œWhy Pacific Small Island States should care about the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdictionโ€. A briefing to a group of Ambassadors of Pacific Island States Missions at the United Nations.

2013

  • New York, November 20, 2013: โ€œWhy Caribbean countries should care about high seas biodiversity?โ€ Caribbean Ambassadorsโ€™ Briefing, United Nations.
  • New York, November 18, 2013: โ€œWhy African countries should care about high seas biodiversity?โ€ African Union Ambassadorsโ€™ Briefing, United Nations.
  • Geneva, October 21, 2013: โ€œA Re-estimation of Global Fisheries Subsidiesโ€. Talk at the World Trade Organization.
  • Brussels, October 17, 2013: โ€œGlobal Fisheries Subsidiesโ€. Presentation at the European Parliament, Committee on Fisheries.
  • Cape Town, March 22, 2013: โ€œGlobal ocean economicsโ€. Presentation to members of the Global Ocean Commission (www.globaloceancommission.org/).

2012

  • Ottawa, November 27, 2012: โ€œThe Value and Opportunities of Healthy Oceansโ€ at the โ€œOceans on the Hillโ€ event hosted by Canadaโ€™s All Party Ocean Caucus and WWF-Canada.
  • Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, October 23-25, 2012: Harnessing Fishery Resources: Swimming the Tide to Africaโ€™s Developmentโ€. African Development Forum VIII, theme: โ€œGoverning & Harnessing Natural Resources for Growth and Development.โ€ [audience was over 1000 people].
  • Washington, D.C., July 12, 2012: A hearing of the US congressional subcommittee on Investigations, Oversight and Regulation entitled โ€œSinking the Marine Industry: How regulations are affecting todayโ€™s maritime businessesโ€.
  • Rio de Janeiro, June 16-19, 2012: Panellist at Rio+20 Sustainable Development Dialogues Oceans panel session. The audience was about 2000 people, including Kings, Queens, Nobel Prize winners and high-level government officials.
  • Nairobi, April 4-5, 2012: โ€œThe management of fish stocks and the importance of fish for food security in Africaโ€. United Nations human rights summit on the Right to Food.
  • Singapore, February 22-24, 2012: Debate: "Feeding the world - are oceans the solution?". Session entitled "Biodiversity: threats and opportunities". World Oceans Summit.
  • London, February 3, 2012: Address at the Princeโ€™s Charities International Sustainability Unit (ISU) Marine Programme Launch.

2011

  • Durban, December 3, 2011: โ€œClimate change impacts on the biophysics and economics of world fisheriesโ€. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 17th Conference of the Parties (COP 17).
  • New York, June 20-24, 2011: Panellist to the twelfth meeting of the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea, United Nations.
  • New York, June 8, 2011: Panellist to discussion entitled โ€œOur oceans: greening our futureโ€ on World Oceans Day at the United Nations. UN Headquarters.
  • Vancouver, February 4, 2011: A meeting of DFO senior management convened and attended by the Deputy Minister of Fisheries, Canada. Gave a talk on strategies to mitigate ecological, social & equity concerns arising from catch share management.

2010

  • Brussels, September 29, 2010: Dinner meeting with the chair of the reform committee of and Members of the European Parliament, on the results of work by my group on global fisheries economics.
  • London, June 6-7, 2010: Group of forty G20 countriesโ€™ Members of Parliament, talk on the occasion of World Ocean Day, on the potential sustainability impacts of fisheries subsidies, British House of Lords.
  • Nairobi, March 29, 2010: Keynote address on the benefits of ecosystem-based fisheries management at the Conference of the Parties Meeting, the Western Indian Ocean Stocktaking Session, UNEP Headquarters.
  • London, March 17-18, 2010: Workshop convened and attended by Prince Charles on how to transition fisheries to a more resilient and sustainable states, St James Palace.

2009

  • Geneva, November 17-18, 2009: The United Nations, gave a talk as part of a review of the forthcoming UN Green Economy Report, on the potential economic advantage of 'greening' global fisheries.

2008

  • Nouakchott, November 16, 2008: One hour meeting with the Minister of Fisheries, Mauritania as a pre-view of a talk I gave at a workshop on the impacts of bottom trawling and hydraulic dredging on the potential net discounted fisheries benefits to the country.
  • Monaco, March 20-21, 2008: Chaired and provided comments at a workshop sponsored by the Prince Albert II Foundation in Monaco entitled โ€œProspects for the sustainable management of fishery resources in areas beyond national jurisdictionโ€. The Prince of Monaco attended the closing session of the meeting.
  • Ottawa, February 28, 2008: The Standing Committee on Fisheries, Canadian Parliament, on the potential effects of decisions taken by the WTO on Canadian fisheries.

2007

  • New York, October 3, 2007: G77 Countries of the United Nations Briefing on the current state of global fisheries: Implications for developing countries.
  • Geneva, May, 2007: Country representatives at the WTO, talk on fisheries subsidies, the scope, magnitude and sustainability on its effect on the sustainability of fish resources.

2006

  • Washington D.C., June 15, 2006: Congressional (Hill) Briefing on the economics of rebuilding U.S. overfished stocks.

2005

  • Washington D.C., March 31, 2005: Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President of the USA, the White House, talk on the economics of marine ecosystem restoration.