Alasdair Harris

Alasdair founded Blue Ventures in 2003 to demonstrate that effective marine conservation requires pragmatic, entrepreneurial, and locally-led approaches to marine and fisheries management. Within Blue Ventures, Alasdair is responsible for leading an interdisciplinary team of over 190 colleagues worldwide. His work focuses on developing scalable solutions to marine environmental challenges through approaches that make marine conservation make economic sense to coastal communities. Alasdair holds a PhD in tropical marine ecology and an honorary doctorate of science from the University of Edinburgh.