Ken Findlay

​Ken Findlay currently leads specialist consultation in ocean governance, blue economies, and ocean inclusive and sustainable development at AfriSeas. With a prior 30-year background in marine mammal science, Ken has played a lead role in whale, dolphin and dugong conservation and management across the Southern Hemisphere, including directing the University of Pretoria’s Whale Unit for a number of years. Realising a need to look at a bigger picture of human interactions with the oceans to advance conservation, he took up the Research Chair: Oceans Economy at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology from 2016. During this time, Ken worked extensively in the sustainable and inclusive blue economy arena, building a strong interest in ocean accounting, ocean sustainability, adaptive and evidence-based ocean governance and the blue financing thereof. He started AfriSeas in April 2023 to fill a consulting need in this area.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7154-8805

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-findlay-current-position-437004326/

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