Nakul Saran

Biography

Nakul Saran serves as Vice President, Fish Forever at the global conservation organization, Rare. In this role, Nakul leads the organization’s fisheries work, implementing sustainable and scalable solutions that help both people and nature thrive in coastal communities throughout the developing tropics. These solutions are at the core of the Fish Forever initiative, formed in 2014 as a partnership between Rare, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the University of California Santa Barbara. Current work focuses on creating positive impact in Indonesia, the Philippines, Mozambique, Brazil, and Belize. An innovative, but proven concept, Fish Forever is a nationally-scaled global effort to place power directly in the hands of communities to restore the fisheries to which their livelihoods and food security are so intimately linked.

Prior to joining Rare in 2014, Nakul spent seven years at the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company where he led the Oceans & Fisheries service within the Sustainability & Resource Productivity Practice. Before his years at McKinsey, he played a key role as Senior Consultant on Environment and Sustainability for Ernst & Young.

Nakul holds master’s degrees in Ocean Engineering and Engineering Management from Florida Institute of Technology, where his research focused on developing a rapid classification tool for coral communities using multispectral acoustics.

A passionate lover of oceans, Nakul’s formative years in Mauritius cemented his lifelong commitment to help protect them and life dependent upon them. His interest in deeply understanding and experiencing the environmental world in a personal way has taken him around the globe to over fifty countries. When not at work, Nakul can be found on a beach, sailing or diving.