Annabelle Bladon

Researcher, Shaping Sustainable Markets

Annabelle works at the intersection of marine conservation, sustainable development, and fisheries economics. She specialises in the design, monitoring, and evaluation of economic tools for sustainable marine fisheries governance.

Full biography

Her work is focused around three main themes: incentive-based tools and social protection for sustainable fisheries governance; innovative financing mechanisms for marine conservation; and how to monitor, evaluate, and improve the effectiveness of these approaches, particularly when data are limited.

Annabelle has experience working in Bangladesh, East Africa, and the Caribbean. She has prepared knowledge products for, and delivered strategic and policy advice to, the UNDP Biodiversity Finance Initiative, Wildlife Conservation Society, FAO, Bahamas Protected Area Fund, WorldFish, Cayman Islands Government Department of Environment, and the Zoological Society of London.

Expertise

Small-scale fisheries, social protection, economic incentives, economic valuation, payments for ecosystem services, conservation finance, and impact assessment.

Before IIED

Independent consultant and associate at Innovations in Conservation, LLC (ICONS), New York; visiting researcher at New York University, University of Oxford, and IIED; communications assistant, SeaWeb.

Education

PhD in Marine Conservation Science, Imperial College London; MRes in Ecology and Environmental Management, and BSc (Hons) Biology, University of York.

Current work

Research on the use of innovative economic solutions to address problems facing the fisheries sector, and to support healthy marine and coastal ecosystems and resilient communities.

Recent publications

Theory-based impact evaluation

Finding evidence for the impact of incentive-based hilsa fishery management in Bangladesh: combining theory-testing and remote sensing methods.