Prof. Roz Naylor will discuss her professional and personal journey in assessing the sustainability of aquaculture over the past two decades. Her comments will reflect insights from two reviews on aquaculture published in Nature , the first in 2000 ("The effect of aquaculture on world fish supplies") and the second in 2021 ("A 20-year retrospective review of global aquaculture). She will discuss the important role of professional collaborations as well as her work on aquatic foods as part of the global food system in shaping her views. The talk will explore major areas of achievement as well as persistent challenges along the path toward a sustainable aquaculture sector.
Rosamond (Roz) Naylor is the William Wrigley Professor of Earth System Science, Professor (by courtesy) in Economics, and founding Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) at Stanford University. She received her PhD from Stanford University in applied economics, her MSc in economics from the London School of Economics, and her dual BA degrees in economics and environmental science from the University of Colorado. Her research focuses on policies and practices to improve global food security and protect the environment on land and at sea. She has been involved in many field-level research projects around the world with her students and has published widely on issues related to aquaculture, global food systems, and food policy. She currently co-chairs The Blue Food Assessment, an international initiative aimed at providing a comprehensive scientific evaluation of the sustainability, nutrition, equity, and justice dimensions of aquatic foods cultured and captured in freshwater and marine environments within the global food system. She is a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America, a Pew Marine Fellow, and a Leopold Leadership Fellow . She is the President of the Board of Directors for Aspen Global Change Institute, a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Oceana, and a member of the Forest Protection Advisory Panel for Cargill . At Stanford, Naylor teaches courses on the World Food Economy, Human Society and Environmental Change, and Food and Security.