Serge M GarciaDr Serge Michel Garcia is French, born in Algeria in 1945. He holds a D.Sc. (Biological Oceanography) from the University of Marseille (France, 1976) and initially specialized in shrimp population dynamics and tropical fisheries management. He workedin West Africa from 1968 to 1979 for the French Institute of Research for Development, IRD (formerly ORSTOM), after which he joined the FAO Fisheries Department where he was successively responsible for West African fisheries resources and global shrimp fisheries, Technical Secretary of the Fishery Committee for the Easter Central Atlantic (CECAF), Chief of the Marine Resources Service, and Director of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Management Division. At FAO, Serge contributed, inter alia, to the conception and development of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (CCRF), promoted the adoption and implementation of the precautionary and the ecosystem approaches to fisheries (EAF), and led the development of the UN Atlas of the Oceans. Dr Garcia has also been a member of the Scientific Steering Committees of the Census of Marine Life (CoML) and of the French Institute for Research and Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER), and member of the boards of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), WorldFish (formerly ICLARM), and the European Bureau for Conservation and Development (EBCD). After retiring from FAO, in 2007, he co-founded and served as first chair of the Fisheries Expert Group of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (IUCN-CEM-FEG). Read More Read Less