Biography:
Prof Krishen Rana, a highly-motivated, results-orientated Team Leader and Senior Aquaculture Development Specialist with solid holistic aquaculture and artesian fisheries knowledge base and expertise across the aquaculture value chain. His world-class expertise is underpinned by 35 years of experience in needs–driven research, notably seed, feed, and sustainable production and training that is horned at the world’s largest aquaculture institutions, including FAO, culminating, in a DSc award (1). Currently serve as an appointed Professor Extraordinaire in Sustainable Aquaculture at Stellenbosch University, Special Advisor to the Freshwater Fish Specialist Group of the IUCN and as Associate Lecturer at the University of St Andrews and undertake senior assignments for agencies such as FAO, UNIDO, EU, AfDB.
Prof Krishen Rana have been heavily involved in over 30 development and field research related projects in a diverse range of developing (and developed) countries and institutions across the globe, including: Malawi, SA, Namibia, Mozambique, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Sierra Leon, Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Thailand, China, Philippines, VietNam, Jamaica, Guyana, Mexico, Chile. This reach, especially in capacity building and training, is extended to well beyond 60 developing countries through contributing to the training of over 600 postgraduate students, many of whom are now in senior positions, and through over 200 technical publications. He was responsible for direct management of 12 national and international aquaculture projects involving many developing countries. As such, he is well versed in project evaluation, managing budgets, developing and implementing complex work plan strategies and coordinating the procurement of specialist resources and equipment.
In many of his projects, he have proved instrumental in developing cooperatives and communities. This includes the design and establishment of a business centre for women and two fish markets in South Sudan, which has subsequently contributed to empowerment of women within the region, along with the reorientation of fisherfolk from wild fisheries to aquaculture.
