International Fisheries and
Aquaculture Advisor
(Executive Officer/Secretariat –
African Chapter of the World Aquaculture Society)
Mr Blessing Mapfumo (Zimbabwean nationality) is an International Fisheries and Aquaculture advisor based in South Africa, with over 20 years professional experience mostly on developments in Sub-Saharan Africa. He is also the Executive Officer (Secretariat) of the African Chapter of the World Aquaculture Society, which is housed at the Africa Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), South Africa. Within the WAS platform, his main assignment is to co-ordinate the organisation of the Aquaculture Africa Conferences. Mr Mapfumo has over the years worked with governments, private sector and developmental organisations mostly in project areas pertaining to building capacity on fish trade and aquaculture development in Africa. He has a number of publications to his credit.
Deputy Director,
Fisheries and Aquaculture Division (NFI),
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United
Nations (FAO),
ITALY
Dr Xinhua Yuan is the Deputy Director, Fisheries and Aquaculture Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. He has over 30 years professional experience in sustainable aquaculture development, promoting policy and technology innovations, good aquaculture practices, and global partnerships. He is supporting the Committee of Fisheries (COFI) and its sub-Committee on Aquaculture (COFI:AQ), and supervising the development of Guideline for Sustainable Aquaculture. He devoted to Blue Transformation for sustainable aquatic food system, improved governance in aquaculture, capacity building and human resources development, empowerment of Youth and Women, as well as the technical support to Member states and related stakeholders worldwide through various programs and projects.
Dr. Small is the Director of the University of Idaho’s Aquaculture Research Institute (ARI) and located at the Hagerman Fish Culture Experiment Station. ARI’s mission is to advance sustainable aquaculture and the conservation of aquatic resources. Dr. Small currently teaches courses in fish physiology and mentors graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting scholars. He has served in numerous leadership roles in the federal government and academia, including Center Director and Associate Dean. Dr. Small’s personal research interests are interdisciplinary and include fish nutrition, physiology, endocrinology, and genomics as they relate to management in both culture and natural environments. Dr. Small has over published over 120 published manuscripts and has received more than $35 million (USD) in competitive grant funding.
Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science
African Union Centre of Excellence in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Rhodes University
South Africa
He is a Member of the African Fisheries Reform Mechanism Advisory Council and he was the Past President of the World Aquaculture Society and Past Chair of the Aquaculture Association of Southern Africa. Prof. Peter Britz is an aquaculture and fisheries specialist and has made extensive contributions to aquaculture research and development, governance, policy and sector planning in southern Africa.
His research group played a key role in the development of technology for the South African abalone farming industry and restoration of abalone fisheries by means of stock enhancement. Other research interests include the trans-disciplinary research on fishery governance, value chain development and the human dimension of fisheries. He provides regular advice on aquaculture and fisheries sector development and policy to industry, government, and development agencies in the Africa.
Department of Fisheries,
Faculty of Agriculture,
Khon Kean University,
Thailand
Dr. Siriporn Tola Ph.D. in Fish nutrition and physiology at Ehime University, Japan. Dr. Siriporn Tola is a lecturer at Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Agriculture, Khon Kean University, Thailand. She has worked as a teacher assistance (Fish Ichthyology and Fish taxonomy) in the Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Agriculture, Khon Kean University, Khon Kean, Thailand from 2011 – 2014 and a lecturer at the Department of Animal and Aquatic Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Thailand, from October from 2019 – July 2022. She has done more than 10 international publication in the field.
Department Chair,
Natural Sciences
Angeles University Foundation Integrated School,
Angeles City,
Philippines
Dr. Analiza J. Molina is currently the Chair of the Natural Sciences Department at Angeles University Foundation Integrated School, Angeles City Philippines. She is a researcher, research adviser and consultant on studies on the isolation and molecular identification of bioluminescent bacteria from marine fishes which were published in international journals. Her presentation on the responses of bioluminescent bacteria from Philippine marine fishes on heavy metals won the best paper award in an international conference in Hatyai, Thailand in 2015. She was invited as a keynote speaker in an international conference on Agriculture, Biological and Chemical Sciences in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in the same year and in universities in Luzon, Philippines in 2017. Her work with a group of junior researchers from Angeles University Foundation Integrated School was presented in an International Scientific Meeting in 2019 held at the University of the Philippines, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. As a research mentor, her team of Senior High School junior researchers were granted research funding from Department of Science and Technology- Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD) under the Young Innovators Program (YIP) for three consecutive years. Dr. Molina was also a scientific journal reviewer of the International Post Graduate Network, Malaysia from 2015-2018, Philippine Agricultural Scientist in 2018, Journal of Visualized Experiments in 2017 and member of the Regional Scientific Review Committee, Department of Education, Region 3 from 2016 – 2019.
President for Indonesian Aquaculture Society
Management of Coastal and Marine Resources
Indonesia
Rokhmin Dahuri M. Sc, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Management of Coastal and Marine Resources for Bogor Agriculture Institute (IPB), a figure professor and community leader has main philosophy to “being a person that is beneficial to all mankind and the universe. His Ph.D., was obtained in School for Resource and Environmental Studies Dalhousie University Nova Scotia Canada (1991). Member of WAS, UNEP and as President for Indonesian Aquaculture Society since 2011 till now. He former Minister for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries of Republic of Indonesia (2001-2004). Recently, he also became senior advisor for Minister Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (2019-now). In others, he was elected as an Ambassador Honorary in Jeju Province, South Korea. Eventually, he won an award for the first Exemplary Lecture in National Level (1995) and also Indonesia Development Award (1999).
Minister for Maritime Affairs
and Fisheries of Republic of
Indonesia
Sakti Wahyu Trenggono is an Indonesian politician serve as Minister for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries in the onward Indonesia Cabinet of President Joko Widodo since 2020. In 2021, he enrolled to public policies program of Bandung Institute of Technology. In expertise later as General Commissioner for an Indonesian cloud computing provider company and private telecommunication research company. Due to his works and contribution for providing internet and communication access in Indonesia, he’s colloquially renowned as “King of Towers” of Indonesia.
Department of Fisheries,
Faculty of Agriculture,
Khon Kean University,
Thailand
Assoc. Prof. Bundit Yuangsoi did his Ph.D. in Aquaculture at Department of Aquaculture, Faculty of Fisheries, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand. He is serving as a lecturer at Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Agriculture, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand. His research interests are aquatic animal nutrition, feed technology and feed biotechnology. His research focuses are on feed additive and fish meal replacement in aquafeeds for sustainability of aquaculture. He has published papers and worked collaboratively with private company on his research field.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bundit-Yuangsoi
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