Manuel Barange
Manuel Barange is a biologist. He 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. Barange was the Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Director of Science at the
Plymouth Marine Laboratory and the chair of the scientific committee of the
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. 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.
Dr Barange obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology (majoring in Zoology and Ecology) in 1986 from the
University of Barcelona, Spain. He conducted his PhD in Marine Ecology at the Sea Fisheries Research Institute (SFRI) in Cape Town, South Africa, awarded by the
University of Barcelona as he wanted the late Prof
Ramon Margalef to be the Chair of the award committee. He did post-doctoral research on Antarctic krill at the Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Cape Town, South Africa, where he remained a Specialist Scientist and Head of the Surveys and Fish Behaviour Division until 2000.
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