Dr. Jeppe Kolding

Dr. Jeppe Kolding is a professor emeritus in Fisheries Sciences at the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen with over 40 years of experience working in 25 countries in the Global South. He began his career in Kenya as a public registered nurse in the remote Turkana district from 1983 to 1985, after which he studied fisheries biology at the University of Bergen, with an MPhil on Lake Turkana in 1990 and a Dr. Scient. on tropical inland fisheries in 1994. His primary experience is African inland fisheries, but he has also worked marine in association with the Norwegian “Dr. Fridjof Nansen” program under FAO, as well as several coastal small-scale fisheries. From his previous background, as a nurse in a hunger prone district in Kenya, he is particularly interested in linking fisheries with food and nutrition security in addition to fish stock assessment, ecology, harvest strategies and management of small-scale tropical fisheries. He is Adjunct Professor at Botswana University of Aquatic and Natural Resources and has been a member of the IUCN/CEM Fisheries Expert Group (FEG) since 2008 where he initiated the work on ‘Balanced harvest’ as a multispecies management approach to merge the objectives of UNCLOS and CBD of maximizing sustainable catch with conservation of the fish community structure and function. He has led and participated in several international transdisciplinary projects and partnered in several international cross-disciplinary expert consultations in association with FEG and FAO.