Affiliation: Padi Aware Foundation

Ian’s career in marine conservation has spanned 20 years and has included working in the public, private and non-profit sectors, and started off volunteering at the iconic Shark Lab in Bimini. Ian spent five years living in the South Pacific leading WWF’s global shark and ray conservation efforts as well as working as a technical specialist to the Fijian government as part of their delegations to CITES and CMS leading the proposal to list mobula rays.

As Associate Director of Policy and Campaigns, Ian leads PADI AWARE’s development and implementation of conservation projects and initiatives with a view to influencing policy at the local, national and global levels, and lead the current work to develop a Global Shark and Ray Census citizen science project with the global recreational diving sector.