Interests and career

My research interests focus on our relationship with the ocean and its inhabitants through a political ecology lens. My PhD thesis, completed in July 2020, investigated tuna fisheries in the Western Indian Ocean and unveiled the implications of access politics, materiality, role of non-humans, geopolitics and regional identity in the management of the fisheries. I particularly focused on Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles.

I am from Madagascar where I worked in marine conservation for a number of years with the NGO Blue Ventures. I advised on marine policy and marine protected areas in the country and developed different fisheries policy documents in collaboration with the Ministry of fisheries.

I have Bachelor degree in Public Law and Political Sciences from the University of Antananarivo and an MPhil in Conservation Leadership from the University of Cambridge.

Along with my research, I am also involved on an advisory capacity with the International Pole and Line Foundation (IPNLF) and as an expert representing Madagascar within the The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).