Memberships on scholarly societies

Memberships on scholarly societies, including offices held and dates

• Chair - Global Future Council on the Regenerative Blue Economy (March 2025 - Present)

• Chair, RSC S7/SSH7 Review Committee for Canada 2025, 2024 - 2025.

• Gulf-Alaska Knowledge Exchange (GAX) Committee (part of the The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine), 2023 - present.

• Committee on Public Engagement of the Royal Society of Canada, 2021 to 2022.

• Frontiers Planet Prize Jury, 2022 - present.

• PhD External Examiner: University of Oxford, 2022.

• External referee for promotion to Associate professor, University of Natural Resources and Energy, Ghana, 2021.

• Royal Society of Canada Committee on Public Engagement, 2021 to present.

• Evaluator of the SSHRC Partnership Grant Midterm Reports from awarded projects.

• Oceana Board of Directors, 2018 to present.

• Hokkaido University Ambassador, 2016 to present.

• Science Advisory Board (SAB) Member, Pew Charitable Trusts’ Global Ocean Legacy, 2018 to present.

• International Distinguished Professor, National University of Malaysia, 2020 to present.

• National Academies of Science, Engineering and Mathematics; Committee on the Contribution of the United States to Ocean Plastic Pollution, 2020 - present.

• Advisory Board, Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics , 2021 - present.

• Global Fisheries Index (GFI) Expert Advisory Panel, Minderoo, Australia, 2020 - present.

• Earth Leaders Programme (Stanford) selection committee members, 2020 - present.

• SSHRC Partnership Grant Midterm Review Panel, 2020 - present.

• Stockholm Resilience Centre International Science Advisory Council, 2019 - present.

• Oceana Board of Directors, 2018 – present.

• Ocean Conservancy Board of Directors, 2017 – 2018.

• The UN Informal Preparatory Working Group 4 on sustainable management of fisheries, fisheries subsidies that contribute to overfishing and IUU, and market access for small-scale artisanal fishers (IPWG4) (2016 – 18).

• Science Advisory Board (SAB) Member, Pew Charitable Trusts’ Global Ocean Legacy (2014 – present).

• Scientific Advisory Panel for PREFACE (Enhancing Prediction of Tropical Atlantic Climate and its Impacts) (2013 – present).

• Scientific Advisor, WWF Canada (2012 – present).

• Coordinating Author, Global Biodiversity Outlook 4 (2011 – 2015).

• Treasurer and Board Member, North American Association of Fisheries Economists (NAAFE) (2007 - present).

• Contributing Author, Global Environmental Outlook 4, 2011.

• Scientific Advisory Committee Member of the 8th Game Theory Practice Meeting, Riverside, California, July 11-12, 2011.

• Affiliate member of the FISHGOVFOOD Thermatic Network, The European Commission (5th Framework Program), Centre for Maritime Research, Amsterdam.

• Working Group Affiliate Member, GLOBEC Focus 4: Social impacts from changes in marine ecosystems, Plymouth, UK.

• Lead author, Conditions Working Group of the Millenium Assessment Research Group (http://www.millenniumassessment.org), WorldFish Centre, Penang, Malaysia.

• Life Membership of the North American Association of Fisheries Economists award 2005.

• International Institute for Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET: 1996 - present).

• The American Economics Association (AEA: 2002 – 2003; 2008 - present).

• The Natural Resource Modeling Association (NRMA: 1999-present).

• The Ocean Management Research Network, Canada (2001 – present).

• Norwegian Development Researchers Association (NUF: 1993-1999, Financial Secretary from 1994 to 1995).

• The Canadian Economics Association (CEA: 1995 - 1996).