Much of her research has tackled the design, implementation and evaluation of incentive-based management in data-poor developing world fisheries, as well as the fiscal reforms which can support sustainable fisheries management.
She is also interested in testing and promoting solutions to fill the global gap in finance for effectively and equitably managed marine protected areas, and the governance arrangements which enable these solutions to succeed.
Annabelle has experience working in Bangladesh, Myanmar, the Caribbean and the Western Indian Ocean.
Small-scale fisheries; compensation; incentives; marine protected areas; economic valuation; payments for ecosystem services; and conservation finance.
Before IIEDIndependent consultant and associate at Innovations in Conservation, LLC (ICONS), New York; visiting researcher at New York University, University of Oxford, and IIED.
Worked with a range of public and private organisations including UNDP and FAO, Conservation Finance Alliance, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bahamas Protected Area Fund, WorldFish, the Zoological Society of London, and the Bangladesh and Cayman Islands governments.
Education
PhD in Marine Conservation Science, Imperial College London; MRes in Ecology and Environmental Management, and BSc (Hons) Biology, University of York.
