• Forty years’ long-term overseas work experience in Asia (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos PDR, Myanmar, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Viet Nam);

  • Leader of multidisciplinary teams on donor funded (i.e. AECID, Danida, EU, GIZ ODA/DFID, UNDP, and USAID) aquaculture and fisheries development projects;

  • Designed and constructed aquaculture hatchery, nursery and grow-out farm systems;

  • Management experience of hatchery, nursery and grow-out production systems, aquatic product processing and marketing, research and development, training and extension;

  • Extensive fresh, brackish and marine aquaculture experience with major aquatic species including shrimp, tilapia, Pangasius, Asian seabass and Chinese and Indian carps;

  • ISO9001: 2008 Lead auditor certified;  

  • GlobalGAP version 5 - all farms and aquaculture auditor;

  • Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certified for:

    • Shrimp hatcheries;

    • Finfish and crustacean farms (land based ponds and freshwater and brackishwater cage culture);

    • Finfish, crustacea, and mollusc hatcheries;

    • Marine cage farms; and,

    • Seafood processing plants.

  • ASC tilapia hatchery and farm auditor;

  • Author of the online Food and Agriculture Organization aquaculture fact sheet on Pangasius hypophthalmus;

  • Author of over 20 aqua-centric technical reports and publications;

  • An ecologist by first degree, having specialized in i) fisheries management, ii) watershed management and iii) environmental pollution;

  • First-hand experience working on poverty focused technology development, participatory rural appraisal and participatory process projects and supervising projects with sustainable livelihoods and community co-management components; and,

  • Thorough understanding of the difficulties of facilitating collaboration between different government departments and staff, the private sector, NGO’s, and stakeholder communities, and the complexities of negotiation within Asian cultural norms; and, 
  • Fluent Thai speaker, good Laotian and basic Vietnamese language skills.