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> Shaping Sustainable Markets research group

Essam Yassin Mohammed

Essam Yassin Mohammed was head of blue economy, in IIED's Shaping Sustainable Markets, until May 2020

Essam Yassin Mohammed's work focuses on environmental and development economics, including the economic valuation of environmental resources and the use of economic instruments for natural resource governance.
Full biography

He is particularly interested in the economics of ocean and fisheries and is currently researching the use of economic incentives for marine and coastal conservation and sustainable fisheries management. He is also researching the use of fiscal reforms and market-based instruments for sustainable financing of natural resources governance in the developing world.

He has experience of working in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Before IIED, he was head of the Fisheries Promotion Unit at the Ministry of Fisheries, Eritrea.

Expertise

Development economics; environmental economics; economic valuation of the environment; economics of fisheries; financial inclusion; payments for ecosystem services.

Experience in Asia (Japan, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Bangladesh), Africa (Eritrea, Tanzania, Mozambique and Mali) and Latin America (Brazil, Costa Rica). 

Before IIED

Fisheries scientist and head of Fisheries Promotion Unit at the Ministry of Fisheries, Eritrea.

PhD in International Development, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University (Japan); MSc in International Development (GPA 4.0), Nagoya University (Japan); BSc in Marine Biology and Fisheries Science, Asmara University (Eritrea).

Interviews

IIED expert interviews: Essam Yassin Mohammed
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Twitter: @EYMohammed
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Languages: English, Arabic, Tigrinya (native), Amharic and Japanese

Essam Yassin Mohammed's projects

A group of fishermen on a boat in Bangladesh

Leave no one behind: assessing policy choices

Project, May 2019
Bowls full of hilsa placed on a table

Investing in hilsa fishery as economic infrastructure for Bangladesh

Project, Jun 2015
Fishermen collecting the day's catch

Bangladesh: protecting the Hilsa from overfishing

Project, Jun 2013

Essam Yassin Mohammed's blog posts

A rock covered in barnacles

An indivisible whole: negotiating the fate of the ocean

Blog, Sep 2019
A fisher waits with a large net attached to his small boat

New rules for governing high seas must be fair for everyone

Blog, Aug 2019
A family fishes in Chandpur, Bangladesh

New rules for high seas must include poorest countries’ needs

Blog, Sep 2018
Plastic debris litters the beach on Clipperton Island, a tiny uninhabited coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean (Photo: Clifton Beard, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Transitioning towards a plastic free world

Blog, May 2018
A small fishing boat off the Albanian coast (Photo: Essam Yassin Mohammed/IIED)

Three things I learnt from a small-scale fisherman in Albania

Blog, Jan 2018
Brazil ambassador Carlos Sobral Duarte addresses a meeting to define the key elements of a draft treaty to govern the high seas (Photo: IISD/ENB | Franz Dejon)

Moving a step closer to protecting the high seas

Blog, Aug 2017
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Protection of high seas is crucial to safeguarding vulnerable coastal communities

Thomson Reuters, March 2019

 
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