Dr. Rashid Sumaila

Appearance

Service

Service to the Community

Memberships on scholarly societies, including offices held and dates

Ongoing

  • Member of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC-UNESCO) Expert Working Group (EWG) for measuring returns on investment in ocean science. March 2026 - present.
  • Member of the Canada Foundation for Innovation Strategic Advisory Group on National Research Facilities (Advisory Group). Jan 2026 - present.
  • Chair - Global Future Council on the Regenerative Blue Economy. March 2025 - present.
  • Gulf-Alaska Knowledge Exchange (GAX) Committee (part of the The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine), 2023 - present.
  • Frontiers Planet Prize Jury, 2022 - present.
  • Royal Society of Canada Committee on Public Engagement, 2021 - present.
  • Evaluator of the SSHRC Partnership Grant Midterm Reports from awarded projects. 2021 - present.
  • Advisory Board, Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics , 2021 - present.
  • International Distinguished Professor, National University of Malaysia, 2020 - present.
  • National Academies of Science, Engineering and Mathematics; Committee on the Contribution of the United States to Ocean Plastic Pollution, 2020 - present.
  • Global Fisheries Index (GFI) Expert Advisory Panel, Minderoo, Australia, 2020 - present.
  • Earth Leaders Programme (Stanford) selection committee members, 2020 - present.
  • SSHRC Partnership Grant Midterm Review Panel, 2020 - present.
  • Stockholm Resilience Centre International Science Advisory Council, 2019 - present.
  • Oceana Board of Directors, 2018 - present.
  • Science Advisory Board (SAB) Member, Pew Charitable Trusts' Global Ocean Legacy, 2018 - present.
  • Oceana Board of Directors, 2018 - present.
  • Hokkaido University Ambassador, 2016 - present.
  • Science Advisory Board (SAB) Member, Pew Charitable Trusts' Global Ocean Legacy (2014 - present).
  • Scientific Advisory Panel for PREFACE (Enhancing Prediction of Tropical Atlantic Climate and its Impacts) (2013 - present).
  • Scientific Advisor, WWF Canada (2012 - present).
  • The American Economics Association (AEA: 2002 - 2003; 2008 - present).
  • Treasurer and Board Member, North American Association of Fisheries Economists (NAAFE) (2007 - present).
  • The Ocean Management Research Network, Canada (2001 - present).
  • The Natural Resource Modeling Association (NRMA: 1999-present).
  • International Institute for Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET: 1996 - present).

Completed

  • Chair, RSC S7/SSH7 Review Committee for Canada 2025. 2024 - 2025.
  • PhD External Examiner: University of Oxford, 2022.
  • Committee on Public Engagement of the Royal Society of Canada, 2021 to 2022.
  • External referee for promotion to Associate professor, University of Natural Resources and Energy, Ghana, 2021.
  • Ocean Conservancy Board of Directors, 2017 - 2018.
  • The UN Informal Preparatory Working Group 4 on sustainable management of fisheries, fisheries subsidies that contribute to overfishing and IUU, and market access for small-scale artisanal fishers (IPWG4) (2016 - 18).
  • Coordinating Author, Global Biodiversity Outlook 4 (2011 - 2015).
  • Contributing Author, Global Environmental Outlook 4, 2011.
  • Scientific Advisory Committee Member of the 8th Game Theory Practice Meeting, Riverside, California, July 11-12, 2011.
  • Working Group Affiliate Member, GLOBEC Focus 4: Social impacts from changes in marine ecosystems, Plymouth, UK (Active ~2001 - 2010).
  • Lead author, Conditions Working Group of the Millenium Assessment Research Group (http://www.millenniumassessment.org), WorldFish Centre, Penang, Malaysia (Active ~2001 - 2005).
  • Affiliate member of the FISHGOVFOOD Thermatic Network, The European Commission (5th Framework Program), Centre for Maritime Research, Amsterdam (Active ~2001 - 2005).
  • Life Membership of the North American Association of Fisheries Economists award 2005.
  • Norwegian Development Researchers Association (NUF: 1993-1999, Financial Secretary from 1994 to 1995).
  • The Canadian Economics Association (CEA: 1995 - 1996).

Memberships of scholarly committees, including offices held and dates

Ongoing

  • Appointed to Global Board of Directors, The Nature Conservancy. 2025-Present.
  • Appointed to FutureEarth Earth Commission (2025-Present)
  • Appointed to the IUCN Task Force on Reducing the Impacts of Fisheries on Marine Biodiversity. 2024-Present.
  • Appointed to the Executive Committee for the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. 2024 - Present.
  • Executive Committee Member, International institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, 2013 - Present.
  • Member MMAS Advisory Committee: NOAA/Conservation International Economic Incentives Research Programme, October 2007 - present.

Completed

  • Chair of the selection committee for Best Student Paper Award of the 2009 North American Association of Fisheries Economists Forum.
  • Scientific Committee of the 2008 International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET), July 2008, Vietnam.
  • Scientific Committee of the 2007 North American Association of Fisheries Economists (NAAFE), March 2007, Merida, Mexico.
  • Scientific and Organizing Committee for the 6th Meeting On Game Theory and Practice Dedicated To Development, Natural Resources And The Environment, Zaragoza, Spain, June/July 2006.
  • The Scientific Committee for the year 2000 International Institute for Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET) Conference, Corvallis, Oregon, USA.
  • Leader of the Scientific Committee for Oceanic Research (SCOR) team on closed areas (1997 - 1999): Team reviewed and extended the current state-of-the-art literature on the use of marine protected areas to mitigate the ecosystem effects of fishing. The work of the group was presented at a conference in Montpellier, France, March, 1999.

Editorships

  • Editorial Board of Science Advances (2018 - present).
  • Co-editor in Chief, Nature affiliated journal - npj Ocean Sustainability.
  • Editorial Board of Marine Policy (2015 - present).
  • Associate Editor, Environmental and Resource Economics (2014 - present).
  • International Editorial Board Member, Maritime Studies (MAST) (2012 - present).
  • International Editorial Board Member, Oryx (2011 - present).
  • Editorial Board Member, Aquaculture Economics & Management (2012 - present).
  • Editorial Board Member: African Journal of Marine Science (July 2003 - present).
  • Editorial Board of Nature's Scientific Reports (2015 - present).
  • Editorial Board Member, Fish and Fisheries (2007 - 2020).
  • Editorial Board of Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries (2014 - 2019).
  • Editorial Board Member, Economic Research International Journal (2010 - 2014).
  • Guest editorship of Journal of Bioeconomics (2009-2011).
  • Guest editorship of Marine Ecological Progress Series (2013-2013).
  • Guest editorship of Fish and Fisheries (2009-2011).
  • Associate Editor, Environment and Development Journal (2006 - 2008).
  • Guest editorship of Land Economics (2005-2006).
  • Guest editorship of Marine Resource Economics (2005-2006).
  • Guest editorship: Natural Resource Modeling (2002).
  • Guest editorship: Coastal Management (2002).

Reviewer

  • Applied Economics (2023)
  • Nature Sustainability (2021)
  • Environmental Science and Policy (2021)
  • Nature Communications (2020)
  • Nature (2020)
  • PNAS (2020)
  • Science of the Total Environment (2020)
  • World Development (2018, 2020)
  • Science Advances (2018)
  • Nature Sustainability (2018, 2019)
  • Nature Ecology and Evolution (2017).
  • Global Environmental Change (2016).
  • Science (2008, 2014, 2015).
  • Nature Climate Change (2014).
  • Marine Policy (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017).
  • Marine Resource Economics (1997-2004, 2009, 2014).
  • Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (2007, 2012).
  • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (2011).
  • Ecological Letters (2011).
  • Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science (2002, 2005, 2011).
  • Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2008, 2010).
  • Environment and Development Economics (2004, 2005, 2010).
  • Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics (2010).
  • ICES Journal of Marine Science (2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010).
  • Environmental Modeling Assessment (2010).
  • Strategic Behavior and the Environment (2009).
  • International Journal Fisheries and Aquaculture (2009).
  • Fish and Fisheries (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009).
  • Progress in Oceanography (2008, 2009).
  • North American Journal of Fisheries Management (2002, 2008).
  • Environmental Modeling and Assessment (2008).
  • Environmental Conservation (2008).
  • Journal of Resource and Energy Economics (2007).
  • American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2007).
  • Resource and Energy Economics (2007).
  • Land Economics (2003, 2005, 2006, 2007).
  • Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (2007).
  • Environmental Management (2007).
  • Fisheries Research (2005, 2006, 2007).
  • Aquatic Living Resources (2007).
  • Marine Ecological Progress Series (2006, 2007).
  • Ecological Economics (2003, 2005, 2006, 2007).
  • Scientia Marina (2006, 2007).
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B (2006).
  • Environment and Development (2004, 2005).
  • Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science (2002, 2005).
  • Natural Resource Modeling (2002 - 2005).
  • Maritime Studies (2005).
  • Environmental & Resource Economics (1999-2001, 2004).
  • Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries (2004).
  • Resource & Energy Economics (2003).
  • Natural Resources Forum (2003).
  • Coastal Management (2003).
  • Ecological applications (2002, 2003).
  • Contemporary Economic Policy (2002).
  • Journal of Bioeconomics (2002).
  • Natural Science (1998).
  • Chapman and Hall Fisheries Book Series (1996).
  • NSERC Discovery Proposal (2017)
  • International Research Chair Initiative: Reviewer of project proposal (2008).
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2o06, 2007).
  • Review of New Hampshire Sea Grant Project Proposal: Social and Economic Impact Assessment on New Hampshire Fishing Communities of Catch Share Management in the Northeast Multispecies Fishery (2011).
  • Grant Proposal Review: International Research Fellowship Program (IRFP) National Science Foundation (2010).
  • Grant Proposal Review: CAMEO (Comparative Analysis of Marine Ecosystem Organization) is a new grants initiative implemented jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Science Foundation (2009)
  • Review of Methodology for assessing the sustainability of seafood, Seafood choices Alliance (2007).
  • The NOAA Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research (2006).
  • Alaska Sea Grant (2004).
  • Coast Information Team of B.C. (Review of a project report entitled Economic Gain Spatial Analysis Fisheries, Ocean Ranching, and Aquaculture: 2004).
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA (Review of project proposal: 2004).
  • The South African National Research Foundation (Review of project proposal: 2002, 2003).
  • Research Council of Norway (Review of project proposal: 2004).

External examiner

  • PhD External Examiner: University of Oslo (2021).
  • PhD External Examiner: Rhodes University, South Africa (2021).
  • PhD External Examiner: Maastich University, the Netherlands (2021).
  • External referee for promotion to full professor, University of Cape Coast (2021).
  • External referee for promotion to full professor, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (2021).
  • The University of West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago (2010).
  • Stellenbosch University, South Africa (PhD) (2005).
  • The Norwegian College of Fisheries Science, University of Tromsø, Norway, (Masters) (1997).
  • Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen, Norway, (Masters) (1994).

Consultant

  • UNEP Green Economic Report: Fisheries Chapter Coordinating author (ongoing).
  • The World Bank, Washington, D.C., USA (1994, 2009).
  • UN Food and Agricultural organization; Rent Drain Project (2008).
  • United Nations Head Office, New York, USA; UN Secretary General's Report on the sustainability of the Oceans (2005).
  • The Organization for Economic C00poration and Development, Paris, France (2004).
  • The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy (2003-2004, 2008).
  • California Environmental Associates and the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, Palo Alto, California, USA (2003).
  • The Norwegian Development Aid Agency, Oslo, Norway (1992-1995).

Service to the University

Memberships on committees, including offices held and dates

Ongoing

  • UBC Sustainability Hub Advisory Committee, 2022 - present.
  • Faculty responsible for Fish 500, IOF, 2010 - present.
  • SPPGA Awards Committee, 2016 - present
  • Member, Institutional Council on Research Prizes and Awards (UBC-wide), 2020-present.
  • President Santa Ono's strategic planning steering committee, 2017 - present
  • Liu Scholar Admission Committee - 2016 - present.
  • MasterCard Foundation Scholars - Undergraduate Selection Committee, 2014 - present.
  • Green College Faculty Members, October, 2009 - present.
  • Faculty Associate, Institute of Resource & Environmental Studies, 2002 - present.

Completed

  • The UBC Strategic Plan Refresh Advisory Committee (SPRAC), Aug 2024 - June 2025.
  • David Rosen reappointment committee, 2023.
  • President's Ad Hoc Advisory Committee - UBCV Provost & VPA pro tem, 2021.
  • IOF Financial Sustainability Committee, 2021-2022.
  • IOF proposed Salmon Centre Committee, 2022.
  • Institutional Council on Research Prizes and Awards (UBC-wide), 2021, 2022.
  • Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship (KARF) Selection Committee (Science), 2021.
  • CRC Internal Review Committee (UBC-wide), 2020, 2021, 2022.
  • Black Faculty Hiring Program, 2021, 2022.
  • The School of Public Policy and Global Affairs Awards Committee, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.
  • The School of Public Policy and Global Affairs Hiring Committee, 2021, 2022.
  • Reappointment Joint Advisory Committee, SPPGA, 2021.
  • Nadja Kunz Re-appointment Committee Member, SPPGA, 2021
  • Member, Reappointment Joint Advisory Committee, SPPGA, 2021
  • Member, Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship (KARF) Selection Committee (Science), 2020.
  • Search Committee, UBC Biodiversity Faculty Hires, 2020 - 2020.
  • Search Committee, UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems 2020.
  • CRC Internal Review Committee, 2020, 2021.
  • Participant in the 2017 UBC Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs Mentor program
  • Peter Wall institute Project proposal review Committee, 2015.
  • Partnership Grant Review Committee - 2014.
  • William Cheung Promotion Committee Chair, 2013 - 2014.
  • Fisheries Centre Head's Strategic Planning Committee, 2013 - 2014.
  • College for Interdisciplinary Studies Finance Committee member, 2010 - 2012.
  • 2007 UBC College for Interdisciplinary Studies Faculty Merit Award Committee.
  • RMES Admissions Committee, 2004 - 2006.
  • Sea Around Us Project Steering Committee, 2002 - 2003.
  • Fisheries Centre Building Committee, 2002 - 2003.

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