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Mr. Manuel Barange
Director, Fisheries and Aquaculture Division, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Professor Manuel Barange is Director of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and an Honorary Professor at the College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, UK. Until May 2016 he was Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Science at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK. From 2010-2013 he was Chair of the Scientific Committee of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, and from 1999-2010 he was Director of the International Project Office of the IOC-SCOR-IGBP core project GLOBEC. In recent years, he has increasingly focused his research on the impacts of climate change and economic globalization on marine-based commodities, and on the interactions between natural and social sciences in fisheries, ecosystems and climate change, in the developed and developing world. Manuel was awarded the 2010 UNESCO-IOC Roger Revelle Medal for his accomplishments and contributions to ocean science. Manuel has over 120 peer-reviewed publications.