Alfredo is Head of the World Economic Forum’s Ocean Action Agenda and Friends of Ocean Action, leading strategy across a wide range of ocean work. The Ocean Action Agenda work aims to create business and policy transformations for a sustainable ocean. He has wide experience spearheading the creation of public-private partnerships to address pressing ocean challenges related to marine conservation and restoration, sustainable fisheries management, and accelerating the blue economy. His work has contributed to strengthening the role of science in marine policy in over 15 countries. Before joining the Forum, Alfredo was an André Hoffmann fellow at the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions and the World Economic Forum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR), where he led the creation of scientific and technological solutions to combat illegal fishing. He holds a PhD and MSc from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a Bachelor in Science from the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California. He was selected as the Roger Revelle awardee by the US National Academy of Sciences in 2021 for his contributions to global ocean policy.
Acelerar la acción en favor de los océanos es crucial para lograr el Objetivo de Desarrollo Sostenible 14. Los esfuerzos deben centrarse en estas cuatro áreas clave.
Accelerating ocean action is crucial to achieving sustainable development goal 14. Ahead of the UNOC 2025 global efforts should focus on four key threads.
The Earth relies on the ocean, but its health is impacted by threats like overfishing. Here's why public-private partnerships are key to restoring ocean health.
海洋问题的解决方案是COP28的讨论主题之一，但那些受气候变化影响最大的人群在这类讨论中往往没有足够的参与度。必须让足够的“热带大多数（tropical majority）”参与才能保证更多合适的解决方案是“从热带中来，到热带中去”。通过承认原住民和当地社区的专业知识，我们可以将全球对热带危机的讨论转向热带机遇。
People in the tropics, or the 'tropical majority', often have invaluable expertise and knowledge of the ocean that is key to helping protect the high seas.
Ocean health is at risk and it will take broad coalitions involving governments, civil society and private organisations to restore its potential.
IUU fishing represents as much as 20% of the global catch and means losses to the global economy in the range of billions. New technological approaches can identify the risks of illegal f...
Marine protected areas are becoming the dominant tool to protect and preserve ocean biodiversity. Local trust and cooperation are vital to their success.
Protecting 30% of the ocean by 2030 is an ambitious goal that will deliver numerous benefits. How do we ensure these benefits reach the right communities?
