➡️ Flavia Lucena Fredoux 🌟

Having joined in 2025, she is supporting her second Pure Ocean call for projects this year. And her expert perspective is invaluable!

With nearly 30 years of experience in fisheries assessment and management — within the Brazilian government, Regional Fisheries Management Organizations, IRD, and as a university professor — Flávia brings unique expertise in fisheries dynamics, resource sustainability, and the protection of marine ecosystems.

She has served as:

🌍 an expert for the United Nations, contributing to the World Ocean Assessment (2018, 2024),

🐟 a member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission,

🇧🇷 National Secretary at Brazil’s Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture (2023–2024),

🔬 a university professor and research director, with more than 140 publications and over 100 students supervised.

Today, she is co‑coordinator of the International Joint Laboratory (LMI) TAPIOCA, an international laboratory dedicated to understanding the ecological, biogeochemical, and human dynamics of the tropical Atlantic.

🎣 Her in‑depth knowledge of fisheries and sustainable management of living resources is essential. Overexploitation is the leading cause of biodiversity collapse: better understanding these dynamics means better protecting the ocean.

🔬 Since our creation, our ambition has been clear: to bring together an independent, international Scientific Committee of experts responsible for defining the focus of our calls for projects and selecting the initiatives to support. Thank you to the experts who have been supporting us for so many years.