Manuel Barange is Assistant Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Director of its Fisheries and Aquaculture Division. He is an honorary professor at the University of Exeter, UK, and visiting professor at the Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, China. Before joining FAO in 2016 Barange was the Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Director of Science at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK) and the chair of the scientific committee of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (Denmark). From 2000 to 2010 he was the Director of the International Project Office of GLOBEC Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics, one of the first ever large programmes working on climate change and marine systems. He conducted his PhD in Marine ecosystem dynamics at the Sea Fisheries Research Institute (SFRI) in Cape Town, South Africa, and post-doctoral research on Antarctic krill at the same institute in South Africa, where he remained a Specialist Scientist and Head of the Surveys and Fish Behaviour Division until 2000. He has published over 120 academic papers and in 2010 he was awarded the Roger Revelle medal for his contributions to marine science
