Position

Director, Aquatic Food Biosciences

Rodrigue Yossa is an Aquatic Foods Scientist with over twenty years of research and development experience in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. Yossa is the Director of Aquatic Foods Biosciences at WorldFish, where he oversees a global team working in the areas of aquatic animal genetics, aquatic animal health, aquatic animal feeds and nutrition, and aquatic farming practices in Asia, Africa and the Pacific. Yossa started his career in 2003 as an intern at Worldfish Cameroon, office for west and central Africa, and stayed with Worldfish until September 2005. Immediately before joining WorldFish again in 2018, Yossa was the Scientific Director of aquaculture at the Coastal Zones Research Institute Inc. (now Valores), in New Brunswick, Canada, where he led a team of aquaculture scientists and technicians. Since January 2018, Yossa is based at the WorldFish headquarters in Penang, Malaysia, where he developed the fish feeds and nutrition global research program of the organization, before assuming the role of Director of Aquatic Foods Biosciences. Yossa holds a Ph.D. in animal sciences from Université Laval (Canada), an M.Sc. in aquaculture from Ghent University (Belgium), University Certificates in Biotechnology (Université Laval, Canada) and in art and philosophy (Ghent University, Belgium), and Undergraduate degree in water, forestry, and wildlife engineering from University of Dschang (Cameroon). Rodrigue is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute in the US, and is fluent in languages such as Bafang, French, English, and Cameroonian Pidgin English.