Dr. Rashid Sumaila

Dr. Rashid Sumaila is a University Killam Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in interdisciplinary ocean and fisheries economics at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on bioeconomics, the economic valuation of marine ecosystems, and global issues such as fisheries subsidies, marine protected areas, illegal fishing, climate change, marine plastic pollution, and oil spills. Dr. Sumaila has extensive international experience working on fisheries and natural resource projects in Norway, Canada and the North Atlantic region, Namibia and the Southern African region, Ghana and West Africa, Brazil and South America, and Hong Kong and the South China Sea. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Bergen and a B.Sc. in Quantity Surveying from Ahmadu Bello University.