• An international Consultant with more than 35 years of experience in the sector of aquatic environment.
• Project leader for research programmes and their implications in fisheries management, preservation of the aquatic environment and biodiversity in tropical countries.
• A unique experience in identifying and designing scientific programmes of researches on various kind of water bodies including marine ecosystems and shared water bodies.
• Research for development in order to establish sustainable fisheries management plans for multi specific stocks in several African countries : Burundi, Rwanda Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda;Tanzania Cote d’ Ivoire, Bénin, Burkina Faso Senegal Guinée; Stock assessment, population dynamics, fishing policy and economics.
• More than 15 years of experience in implementation of environmental assessment methodologies and follow up of the evolution of aquatic ecosystems after dam construction.
• An experience clearly demonstrated in aquatic ecology and fisheries biology toward sustainable fisheries management including social issues and environment protection, sometimes, within a regional and/or interstate context.
• A long experience in understanding the evolution of multi specific fish stocks and ecosystem modelling, organising data collection for fisheries statistics, fish stock assessment, evaluation of potential catch with various non-linear statistical methods.
• Working experience of very various kinds of aquatic ecosystems: tropical man-made lakes (Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Sri Lanka, Thailand), Flood plains (Ogooué in Gabon, Ouémé in Bénin, Alaotra humid zone in Madagascar) East African Great Lakes (Victoria, Kivu, Tanganyika, Burundi sector), riverine environment (Madagascar, China, Mekong River), littoral marine areas (Senegal, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, deltaic zones (The Mekong Delta), brackish water bodies (West Africa),
• A strong experience in aquaculture systems and development, including integrated aquaculture and cage culture in open waters, fish genetics and fish diseases.
• Good knowledge procedures and regulations of various donors
• Fluent in both French and English.