Coastal and Marine Experts in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) Region
| My professional career has primarily focused on human-shark conflict and shark and ray ecology, conservation and management. |
Angelique is a lawyer (Seychelles and UK) and she holds an LLM in Environmental law specializing in the law of the sea and natural resources law. Also, Angelique is a trained climate change negotiator under the AOSIS Climate Change Fellowship Programme at the United Nations.
Dr. Sifuna is a holder of PhD in Biomedical Science and Technology from Maseno University, Kenya. He is a lecturer of Biochemistry at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology; School of Medicine. My areas of research and consultancy include: -
Fisheries, Marine Conservation (marine protected areas management), Marine Spatial Planning and Ocean Governance.
Areas of expertise - Fisheries, Marine Protected Areas, Maritime spatial planning and Ocean governance.
I work on demersal trawl fisheries of the western Indian Ocean and I coordinate the WIOFish Project which collates fisheries information for eight countries of the WIO.
Trained at BSc level as a general marine ecologist. At MSc level specialized as a seagrass ecologist, and at PhD level as a mangrove and fish ecologist.
Carol is a natural scientist, currently pursuing her doctoral degree in Industrial Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Milan (Milan, Italy). Her work is focused on monitoring material flows and pollution cycles across the plastic industry-environment-society nexus, and investigating the role of technology in the transition to the circular economy of plastics.
I'm an environmental analytical chemist with a special interest in microplastics pollution in East African marine waters and is currently in the final year undertaking a Ph.D. in Environmental Analytical Chemistry at Pwani University, Kilifi, Kenya, studying microplastic pollution in water, sediments and looking into possible risks of microplastics in the marine environment.