Ocean programmes increasingly bring together environmental objectives, institutional reform, investment and technology.
Their success depends not only on the quality of the strategy but on whether the responsible institutions can implement it.
I work with development banks, governments, foundations, funds and ocean-linked organisations on that challenge.
Institutions typically seek specialist advice when a significant decision is approaching or when an established programme is struggling to deliver its intended results.
National and regional strategy designed to survive political and funding cycles, with governance, capital, technology and operations treated as one system.
Management system design, monitoring, control and surveillance, and stock assessment capability, from Philippine municipal fisheries in the 1990s to regional reviews of AI and machine-learning applications in fisheries management.
Structuring, pipeline design and additionality assessment, including being explicit about which concepts are not yet fundable and why.
The data infrastructure that increasingly determines market access and regulatory confidence.
Multi-country programmes, grant-making architecture, results frameworks, performance review and phased, evidence-grounded exits.
Governance reform and decision support for ocean institutions under sustained strain.
The examples below distinguish consortium participation by Blue-Green Advisors, my individual authorship and my personal appointments.
Blue-Green Advisors is publicly identified as a consortium partner in the UK Government’s Climate and Ocean Adaptation and Sustainable Transition (COAST) programme.
My work is connected to ocean strategy, governance, technical advisory and the institutional conditions required to deliver sustainable ocean programmes.
My work with the Asian Development Bank includes regional ocean strategy and technical contributions to understanding the governance, investment and environmental challenges facing the Asia-Pacific.
I am credited as a co-lead author of the ADB’s 2025 publication on oceans and coral reefs in Asia and the Pacific.
In January 2026, the Seafood Task Force publicly announced my appointment as Senior Consultant to support its strategic positioning and 2030 agenda.
The engagement reflects my work at the intersection of seafood systems, institutional governance and long-term strategic delivery.
These examples distinguish individual authorship, professional appointments and corporate consortium participation. They do not imply responsibility for programme-wide outcomes.
Development banks and multilateral programmes carrying ocean portfolios that need coherence across fisheries, marine protected areas, coastal adaptation and blue economy investment, and that need concepts to reach investment-readiness.
Sovereign and philanthropic funds deploying capital into ocean and coastal systems, where the live questions are additionality, pipeline quality, grant-making standards and how to exit a region responsibly.
National ministries and fisheries agencies designing management, monitoring and compliance systems that have to hold across changes of government.
Ocean-linked business, including seafood supply chains, aquaculture operators and ocean technology ventures, facing traceability obligations, standards regimes and market access conditions.
Development banks and multilateral programmes. Asian Development Bank; World Bank, on ocean monitoring in Indonesia; USAID, through Sustainable Fish Asia technical support.
Government. UK FCDO and the Blue Planet Fund, including the COAST programme, in which Blue-Green Advisors is a consortium partner; Defra, through the OCEAN Grants Programme.
Foundations and philanthropy. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation; the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Oceans 5; the Walton Family Foundation.
Charities, NGOs and industry bodies. Sustainable Fisheries and Communities Trust; Seafood Task Force; International Pole and Line Foundation; Oceana; Zoological Society of London.
Ocean industry and technology. Zunibal, on electronic monitoring and fisheries data products, and a number of ocean ventures not named at the client’s request.
Naming an organisation indicates professional involvement. It does not imply responsibility for programme-wide outcomes.
Portfolio design and exit. Designed and managed a multi-country fisheries governance portfolio across Southeast Asia, Melanesia and Micronesia for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and supported the Foundation’s phased, country-by-country exit after many years of regional investment.
Programme building. Helped design and pilot Fish Forever’s founding cohorts across the Philippines and Indonesia.
Governance and standards. Supported Reef Check operations across Indonesia and the Philippines and the establishment of Reef Check Malaysia, and supported a World Bank-funded certification standard for the marine ornamental fish trade.
National systems. As Provincial Coordinator for a USAID-funded integrated coastal management programme in the Philippines, worked on coastal law enforcement, marine protected areas and the creation of provincial environment management offices.
Indonesia · Philippines · Vietnam · Malaysia · Thailand · Papua New Guinea · Solomon Islands · Timor-Leste · Federated States of Micronesia · Fiji · Mozambique · Madagascar · United Kingdom
Engagements begin by clarifying the institutional problem, the decisions required and the practical constraints on delivery.
Work may range from defined strategic reviews to technical advisory, programme design or longer-term implementation support.
Ocean-sector commissions are undertaken through Blue-Green Advisors, the specialist advisory firm I founded in 2017.
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