Ahmed Khan

Ahmed Khan was a senior researcher in IIED's Shaping Sustainable Markets until October 2018

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Languages: English, French (elementary), Creole
Ahmed has more than 10 years experience in natural resource economics and policy as well as global environmental and economic change. I am interested in the multiple linkages and pathways between the environment (natural resources), the economy (markets), and society (well-being) through institutional mechanisms.

Ahmed has employed both conceptual and analytical tools in understanding best management practices from local, to national, regional and global scales. My work has been published and communicated as book chapters, policy briefs and articles in journals such as 'Ambio', 'Bioeconomics', 'Coastal Management', 'Climate Policy', 'Fisheries Research', 'Marine Policy', 'Regional Environmental Change', and 'Science'.

Expertise

•    Ecosystems services and the blue economy   
•    Fisheries resource management, seafood trade, and marine policy
•    Global commodity and value chains, traceability and eco-certification
•    Climate hotspots, adaptation policy integration, environmental governance 
•    My work experiences span from within Canada (from the East to the West coast) to the Caribbean region (Jamaica, SVG, St. Lucia, Haiti), Western Africa (Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia), Southern Africa (Seychelles, Mauritius), Eastern Africa (Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya), and Asia (China, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Nepal). 

Before IIED

•    Climate resilience and seafood value chain specialist, consulting scientist with ESSA Technologies, CRFM and University of West Indies
•    Professional Development Awardee, CARIAA, IDRC, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
•    Research fellow, UNEP-IEMP and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 
•    Postdoctoral research fellow Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS, Canada
•    Doctoral researcher, Memorial University, St. Johns, NL, Canada
•    Graduate researcher, FERU, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada

Current work

•    Typology and synthesis of fiscal instruments in fisheries 
•    Governance reforms in fisheries and marine resources 
•    Climate policy integration of fisheries into National Adaptation Plans
•    Equity and inclusion in SDG14 (and others)