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Dr. José Aguilar Manjarrez

Aquaculture Officer
FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean

José Aguilar Manjarrez holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Aquaculture from the University of Stirling (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), a Diploma in Financial Aquaculture from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico, and a B.Sc. in Oceanography from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC), Mexico. Since joining the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 1996 at its headquarters in Rome, Italy, he has played a strategic role in designing and implementing innovative initiatives for sustainable aquaculture development in more than 45 countries worldwide. His work focuses on spatial planning and management, including aquaculture zoning, site selection and management areas, carrying capacity assessment, the ecosystem approach to aquaculture, climate change adaptation, offshore mariculture, macroalgae farming, and disaster risk management. He has significantly contributed to technical knowledge generation and public policy design, coordinating and authoring over 50 FAO technical publications and numerous peer-reviewed scientific articles. In June 2019, he assumed the position of Fisheries and Aquaculture Officer at the FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Santiago, Chile, where he continues to advance technical, regulatory, and strategic solutions aimed at strengthening the sustainability, resilience, and competitiveness of the aquaculture sector across the region.

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