# Memberships of scholarly committees * Appointed to FutureEarth [Earth Commission](https://earthcommission.org/commissioners/) (2025-Present) * Appointed to the IUCN Task Force on Reducing the Impacts of Fisheries on Marine Biodiversity. 2024-Present. * Appointed to the Executive Committee for the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. 2024 – Present. * Executive Committee Member, International institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, 2013 – Present. * Chair of the selection committee for Best Student Paper Award of the 2009 North American Association of Fisheries Economists Forum. * Scientific Committee of the 2008 International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET), July 2008, Vietnam. * Member MMAS Advisory Committee: NOAA/Conservation International Economic Incentives Research Programme, October 2007 – present. * Scientific Committee of the 2007 North American Association of Fisheries Economists (NAAFE), March 2007, Merida, Mexico. * Scientific and Organizing Committee for the 6th Meeting On Game Theory and Practice Dedicated To Development, Natural Resources And The Environment, Zaragoza, Spain, June/July 2006. * The Scientific Committee for the year 2000 International Institute for Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET) Conference, Corvallis, Oregon, USA. * Leader of the Scientific Committee for Oceanic Research (SCOR) team on closed areas (1997 - 1999): Team reviewed and extended the current state-of-the-art literature on the use of marine protected areas to mitigate the ecosystem effects of fishing. The work of the group was presented at a conference in Montpellier, France, March, 1999. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://cv.rashidsumaila.com/service/service-to-the-community/memberships-of-scholarly-committees.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.