Director General - Dr. Stephen J. Hall Dr. Stephen J. Hall was appointed Director General of the WorldFish Center in March 2004. He was previously Director of the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and was a member of Prime Minister’s Steering Committee on Mapping Australia’s Innovation System from 2003 until 2004. He also served as Director of Lincoln Marine Science Center, Australia, worked in Flinders University as Professor of Marine Biology, and as Section Head (Fish Biology) in the Scottish Office Agriculture Environment and Fisheries Dept, Marine Lab Aberdeen, UK. In January 2005, Dr Hall was awarded the Public Service Medal for outstanding service as Director of the Australian Institute of Marine Science. In 2001, he was awarded a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation in recognition of his contributions to fisheries and marine science in Australia. He has published extensively in the scientific and development literature on tropical fisheries and aquaculture. Dr. Hall has a Ph.D. in Marine Ecology and a B.Sc. in Marine Biology and Biochemistry. He is also a Graduate, Australian Institute of Company Directors. s.hall@cgiar.org
Deputy Director General, Research - Dr. Patrick Dugan
Dr. Dugan is responsible for the development of the Center's regional programs in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, as well as the management of the Center's Abassa research facility. He is currently based in Egypt. From 1984, till he joined the Center in 2000, Dr. Dugan was attached to IUCN-The World Conservation Union. During that period he held various positions, the last being the global program director based in Switzerland. Over the course of his career he has worked extensively in Africa and West Asia at local, national and regional levels. Dr. Dugan has a Ph.D. and B.Sc. in Zoology. p.dugan@cgiar.org
Natural Resource Management - Dr. Neil Andrew
Ph.D. in Fisheries Ecology, University of Sydney (Australia). Neil has participated in a wide range of fisheries and ecological research globally, including assessing stocks in shellfish fisheries, rocky reef ecology, fishery observer programs, prawn trawl by-catch, invasion ecology, echinoderm population biology, ecological effects of fishing, stock enhancement, population biology of seaweeds, experimental design and analysis. He is skilled at liaising with community and stakeholder groups to design and execute fisheries research programs, and at translating research outputs into management outcomes. He came to WorldFish from New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in 2005. Neil’s publishing credits include 48 articles in refereed journals, two books as editor and six book chapters, and dozens of refereed reports on New Zealand fisheries. n.andrew@cgiar.org
Aquaculture and Genetic Improvement - Dr. Malcolm Beveridge Dr. Malcolm Beveridge joined the WorldFish Center as the Discipline Director of the Aquaculture and Genetic Improvement discipline in April 2006. Dr. Beveridge obtained his Ph.D. in Aquatic Ecology from the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. Dr. Beveridge has more than 25 years research experience in aquatic resources management including aquaculture and fisheries and their impacts, GIS, habitat restoration, limnology and fish ecology cumulating in 150 scientific papers, books and articles. He has 20 years experience of implementing research and capacity building projects with multidisciplinary partners in both tropical and temperate parts of the world. Dr. Beveridge was previously the Director of the Fisheries Research Services Freshwater Laboratory in Scotland. M.Beveridge@cgiar.org
Southern and Eastern Africa - Dr. Daniel Jamu
Malawian, Ph.D. in Ecology, University of California, Davis (USA). Daniel first used his B.Sc. in Agriculture from the University of Malawi to process tea for Lujeri Tea Estates, a Unilever division in Malawi, where he led the implementation of spectrophotometric analysis and grading of tea quality. He then worked for WorldFish for a few years as a research associate for aquaculture. After five years away at the University of California, Davis, he returned to WorldFish in 1999. Working primarily on integrated aquaculture-agriculture systems, he develops low-cost technologies for farming fish alongside conventional crops in resource-poor environments in southern Africa. Daniel is the author of ten refereed articles and six peer-reviewed books, book chapters and monographs, as well as sixteen other publications. d.jamu@cgiar.org
West and Central Africa - Dr. Ann Gordon
Dr. Gordon joined the WorldFish Center as Regional Economist and Senior Livelihoods Advisor based at WorldFish Center’s office in Cairo, Egypt. Dr. Gordon obtained her Ph.D. from Imperial College, London and was a Fulbright scholar at Cornell. She has worked in rural economic development programs since 1982, in consultancy and research, as well as with governments and NGOs. Her experience spans Africa, Latin America and Asia and includes: senior management with the Aga Khan Foundation providing oversight to rural development programs in Africa and Asia; 10 years UK-based work with the Natural Resources Institute, heading a team of economists working on agriculture and fisheries; 3 years in Mauritius covering NRI work in Africa/South Asia; and a secondment to the International Service for National Agricultural Research (CGIAR) in The Hague. a.gordon@cgiar.org
South Asia - Mr. Alan Brooks Mr. Brooks obtained his M.Sc. in Aquaculture and Fisheries Management in 1988 and joined the WorldFish Center as Portfolio Director for South Asia in Jan. 2006. He has international program development experience from almost two decades of working in poverty-sensitive fisheries and aquaculture development in five developing countries (12 years in Thailand, India, Bangladesh and Malawi). The wider international experience complements over 5 years senior project management and 2 years monitoring of natural resource portfolio of livelihood projects in Bangladesh. He has considerable long-term project experience in management, leadership, sustainable livelihoods, performance appraisal, human resource development and participatory action research in poverty focused projects and larger multi-lateral co-funded programs. a.brooks@cgiar.org
Greater Mekong - Dr. Blake Ratner
Ph.D. in development sociology, Cornell University (USA). A specialist in fisheries governance, institutional analysis and conflict mediation, Blake is fluent in Spanish, French and Khmer. After stints in Guatemala, the West Bank and Minnesota, he focused on the Mekong River basin, initially as a World Bank consultant in Cambodia. As a World Resources Institute senior associate, he managed a research and capacity-building program on institutional and governance aspects of watershed management in Mekong basin uplands. Since joining WorldFish in 2003, he has developed national capacity in the lower Mekong basin for the economic valuation of wetlands and studied the legal and institutional reforms needed for wetlands’ equitable and sustainable use. Blake has published six articles in refereed journals, written two books and two book chapters, edited two books, and written a dozen conference papers and commissioned reports. b.ratner@cgiar.org
East and South East Asia - Dr. Maripaz Perez
Dr. Maripaz L. Perez, a Filipino national who obtained her Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of the Philippines, was formerly the Undersecretary for Regional Operations of the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of the Philippines. She has held several other government positions, briefly taught at the University of the Philippines in Los Banos and the Technology Management Center in UP Diliman and has also been involved in various research projects and consultancy engagements . She supervised the implementation of the Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program (SET-UP) of the Department and the operation of the Science Foundation Unit in charge of the accreditation of science and technology foundations in the Philippines. She has vast institutional experience and wide professional network in Asia. ma.perez@cgiar.org
Pacific - Dr. Warwick Nash
Ph.D. in Population Biology and Fishery Assessment, University of New South Wales (Australia). After a decade of studying, assessing, surveying and mapping maritime fisheries in Queensland with James Cook University, the University of Queensland, the Queensland Fisheries Service, and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (with particular attention to giant clam mariculture), Warwick went south to Tasmania to work with the state Department of Primary Industry and Fisheries and Australian Maritime College, with a focus on abalone populations, finally serving as deputy director of the state’s Inland Fisheries Service. Joining WorldFish in 2002, he guides the Center’s research and cooperation in the Pacific. He has published nine technical papers in refereed journals, 25 book chapters and proceedings papers, and about 30 extension articles, dissertations, abstracts and other reports. w.nash@cgiar.org
