https://www.oceanexpert.org/expert/MJBP

PhD

Research

- Interdisciplinary approach to ocean governance
- Social and natural systems involved at MPAs
- Food security from the sea
- Local/traditional fisher's knowledge
- Small-scale fisheries - interdisciplinary perspective to challenges

PhD in Human Geography (Memorial University of Newfoundland),  Postdoc on “Development and Knowledge Sociology” at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Bremen, Germany,  Master’s research at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Bachelor  Biological Sciences (Pontifical Catholic University Ecuador). Research interest on coastal marine ecosystems and marine protected areas (MPAs);  interactive governance framework to marine resource (small-scale fisheries governance),  governability of MPAs, Galapagos Marine Reserve governance. Food security from the sea. 

Member of the Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Global Research Partnership for Small-Scale Fisheries Research. Currently the Science Director at the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands.  Appointed as CDF Interim Executive Director in April 2020.

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