Dr. Graeme Parkes, PhD
Vice President: Project Management

Dr. Graeme Parkes has more than thirty years of professional experience in fisheries evaluation, monitoring and management, resource assessment, fishing capacity management, and fisheries certification systems. He has worked within the MRAG family of companies since 1994, occupying senior management positions both at MRAG Ltd. in London and MRAG Americas in the US. As Vice President: Project Management, Graeme serves on the Executive Team and is responsible for for defining and developing project management processes, and policy to ensure alignment with MAG Americas’ corporate strategy and goals. Graeme has a Masters in Oceanography from Southampton University and a PhD in fisheries science from Imperial College, London, specializing in the assessment and management of groundfish resources in the Antarctic. He was a member of the UK delegation to the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) for 20 years and the UK Representative to the CCAMLR Scientific Committee in 1999, 2010 and 2011. He was also a member of the EU Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) between 2007 and 2010.