Dr. Graham Pilling
Member, ISSF Scientific Advisory Committee & Deputy Director, FAME (Head of the Oceanic Fisheries Programme), The Pacific Community (SPC)
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Dr. Graham M. Pilling is the Deputy Director, FAME (Head of the Oceanic Fisheries Programme) at The Pacific Community (SPC), where he is the SPC lead in the Scientific Committee work of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) as well as in the delivery of scientific and technical information to SPC’s Pacific Island County and Territory membership.
He has over 30 years of experience analyzing, assessing, and providing scientific advice on tropical, temperate, and polar marine and freshwater ecosystems and fisheries. Key research areas include harvest strategies, pelagic and demersal fisheries stock assessment, and climate change impacts on fish stocks and ecosystems.
Since 2010, Dr. Pilling has worked in SPC’s Oceanic Fisheries Programme — and began leading the program in 2019 — providing stock assessments, analyses, and advice to support management of Western and Central Pacific Ocean fisheries.
Before joining SPC, he was Head of the Seas and Ocean Group in the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science in Lowestoft in the United Kingdom. Dr. Pilling provided stock assessment and ecosystem advice to the U.K. government and the European Union as well as on industrial tuna fisheries and artisanal reef fisheries in the tropics and Arabian Gulf.
Dr. Pilling received a Ph.D. in Fisheries Biology from Imperial College in London.
