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Alasdair Harris

Executive DirectorBlue Ventures

Skoll Awardee

Biography

Alasdair is a marine conservationist working at the interface of ocean protection and social justice.

His organisation Blue Ventures develops locally led approaches to marine conservation that benefit people and nature.

Blue Ventures’ approach is helping many hundreds of thousands of people address overfishing and safeguard ocean life in fifteen countries across southeast Asia and Africa,

Alasdair is a TED fellow, and holds a PhD in marine ecology and an honorary doctorate of science from the University of Edinburgh.

He has spent more than two decades working with communities to rebuild small-scale fisheries across the tropical Indo-Pacific.

Regional Focus

Eastern and Southern Africa, Oceania, West and Central Africa