Biography
Since 2016, Ms. Mariana Toussaint has been working as Fishery Expert at FAO. She is part of the FAO GLOBEFISH Team, which is a multidonor funded project that promotes and provides up-to-date information on trade, trends and markets in fish and fishery products among governments, industry, academia and other stakeholders around the world. Her thematic areas of work include fisheries policy development and management, issues related to international trade and market access, international fisheries trade agreements and market-based instruments, social responsibility, gender issues. Mariana has a Ph.D. in Social Sustainability, cum laude, a master’s degree in International Trade, and a bachelor’s degree in Commerce. All her studies have been carried out through the University of Vigo (Spain). In 2020, the EAE Business School awarded Mariana the prize for the Best Research in Ethics and Responsibility.