staff
Jim Cannon, Chief Executive Officer
Purbasari Surjadi, Chief Operating Officer
Merul Patel, Chief Information Officer
Howard M. Johnson, Senior Advisor
Ian Heath, Markets and Corporate Responsibilities Advisor, Europe, Asia, Australia
Doug Beveridge, Director, European Fisheries
Tony Pitcher, Science Advisor
Pedro Sousa, FishSource Director
Brad Warren, North American Fisheries & Productive Ocean Partnerships
Dessy Anggraeni, Research Director
Juan M. García-Caudillo, Central American and Caribbean Fisheries
Ernesto Godelman, CeDePesca S.A. partner NGO
Ernesto “Jack” Morales, Aquaculture Director
Lani Asato, Development & Communications
Lydia Napitupulu, Researcher
Amalia Firman, Director, Program Management Support
Jim Cannon, CEO and founder of the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership, spent more than a decade working on fisheries and forestry issues in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Jim has edited the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s World Review of Marine Fisheries, developed McDonald’s fish-sourcing guidelines and annual sourcing evaluations since 2002, and advised Wal-Mart on seafood sustainability since 2004. He studied ecology at Cambridge and environmental economics, management and fisheries at Imperial College London. He worked at Conservation International from 1997 to 2006, where he headed the economics program and then the policy center. Jim currently serves on the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) Technical Advisory Board. (return to top)
Purbasari (Sari) Surjadi, Chief Operating Officer, has BSc.in marine biology and M.Sc in coastal zone management and led several marine projects in Indonesia. Sari was the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund Grant Manager for Sumatra where she managed a grant portfolio of ten million dollars and gained extensive experience in running small grants programs to local NGOs. Prior to this role, Sari was deputy director of Conservation International Indonesia for five years. (return to top)
Merul Patel is Chief Information Officer, responsible for the technical systems related to FishSource and SFP operations. Originally a solid state physicist, with a PhD from Cambridge University, and the author of several papers and patents, he has held a number of positions in publishing and technology companies over the last 25 years culminating in CTO and CEO positions in the mobile payments space. (return to top)
Howard M. Johnson, Senior Advisor, has over 35 years experience in all facets of the seafood industry. As a consultant, Howard has provided analysis on global seafood trends, planning, marketing and market research. His clients include major U.S. government and international agencies, financial institutions, non-governmental organizations, leading seafood corporations and commodity marketing organizations. He is editor and publisher of The Annual Report on the United States Seafood Industry, an authoritative reference on seafood trends. Howard also serves on the MSC Technical Advisory Board, the conservation committee of the Sea Change Investment Fund LLC and Advisory Board of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program. (return to top)
Tony Pitcher, Senior Scientist, is also the Founding Director of the Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia and is Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at UBC. A fisheries scientist with more than 38 years experience, Tony is also the Founding Editor of two academic journals: Fish and Fisheries and Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. Tony has Bachelor and Doctoral degrees from Oxford University and he has held academic positions in England, Wales, Ireland and Germany. His consultancy and research work have covered a broad range of research topics in fisheries, including seamounts, coral reefs, African Lakes, artisanal fisheries, numerical methods and ecosystem-based management. (return to top)
Pedro Sousa is Director of FishSource. He received his PhD in Population Biology and his MSc in Mathematics applied to Biological Sciences from University of Lisbon, Portugal. He has been working for more than 14 years as scientific consultant and researcher for statistical analysis on many marine and fisheries projects in Portugal. He is Main Professor at a private university of Algarve, Faro, Portugal. (return to top)
Brad Warren manages the Productive Oceans Partnerships Program and consults on North American Fisheries. He was the founding director of the National Fisheries Conservation Center (NFCC), known for collaborative problem-solving and analysis. Brad edited NFCC’s first book in 1994, “Win-Win Bycatch Solutions: A Handbook for Collaboration,” and has served as a consultant to the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization, the Marine Conservation Alliance, Icicle Seafoods, and other organizations. He was editor of Pacific Fishing (1996-2004), and has written about fisheries and marine conservation for more than 25 years. (return to top)
Dessy Anggraeni has nearly ten years of experience in conservation and natural resource management and economic development issues in Indonesia. Dessy has worked on marine conservation and coastal management in some key marine reserves in Indonesia to demonstrate the economic benefits of conservation to local stakeholders. She holds a Master’s degree in Applied Environmental Economics from the Department of Agricultural Economics and Business Management, Imperial College at Wye, University of London and a bachelor’s in Forest Resource Conservation from the Faculty of Forestry, Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia. She worked with Conservation International Indonesia from 2001 to 2007 as Senior Resource Economist. She is leading research efforts to populate the FishSource database with critical information on the sustainability of major fisheries worldwide. (return to top)
Juan M. García-Caudillo is a consultant to SFP on Central American and Caribbean Fisheries. He graduated as a Biochemical Engineer major in aquatic resource management from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. He is qualified in natural protected areas management from the Colorado State University; in Coastal zone Integral Management from the University of Rhode Island, and has a master’s degree studies in regional development and environment at the Universidad Iberoamericana. From 1994 to 2004 he worked for Conservation International on the strategy and project design for regional conservation in northwest Mexico, particularly in the Gulf of California. He has consulted with World Wildlife Fund, Conservation International, Natural Resources Defense Council and Pronatura. Currently Juan Manuel is the executive director of Terra Peninsular AC; a local land conservation organization based at Ensenada, Mexico. (return to top)
Ernesto Godelman is a specialist in marine fisheries. He has served for 12 years as Executive Director of CeDePesca (Centro Desarrollo y Pesca Sustentable), an NGO devoted to sustainable fisheries. CeDePesca is a key NGO partner for SFP in South America, with long-term programs in Argentinean, Chilean and other whitefish fisheries. (return to top)
Ernesto “Jack” Morales, Aquaculture Program Director,is based in Manila, Philippines. Jack has extensive experience in freshwater aquaculture in Southeast Asia particularly regarding tilapia and other self-recruiting species. He has a PhD in Aquaculture from the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Scotland. Jack worked with various research projects funded by the Aquaculture and Fish Genetics Research Programme (AFGRP) and the Department for International Development (DFID-UK) in the Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand. (return to top)
Lani Asato is Director of Communications and Development. Lani has worked with nonprofit conservation organizations for more than ten years in various communications and fundraising roles including: media relations, online communications and online fund raising. She worked for Conservation International from 1997 to 2004. Lani has an M.S. in Environmental Science from Johns Hopkins University and is based near San Diego, California. (return to top)
Lydia Napitupulu is a researcher based in Indonesia specializing in economic development and natural resource management, with a focus on coastal and marine issues. She studied resource economics at the University of Rhode Island, and has worked for Conservation International, WWF, The World Bank, and other organizations in Indonesia. (return to top)
Amalia Firman, Director of Program Management Support, has extensive experience in managing partnerships and projects on conservation communication and environmental management. Amalia received a Masters in Development Management from Asian Institute of Management, Philippines, MSc Civil Engineering from University of Hawaii and BSc Environmental Engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology in Indonesia. She co-edited Indonesia Sectoral Agenda 21, contributed to Conservation International’s publication on Designing Communication Strategy, and has written various articles on nature conservation. Amalia worked for more than seven years at Conservation International Indonesia in different roles: Project Manager for World Bank Communication/Awareness program, Operations Director, and Communication Specialist for CI Marine Program. (return to top)