Alejandro Anganuzzi
Member, ISSF Scientific Advisory Committee & Global Coordinator, Common Oceans ABNJ Tuna Project
Alejandro Anganuzzi is currently Global Coordinator for the Common Oceans ABNJ Tuna Project based in Rome at the UN FAO. Previously, he served as the executive secretary of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) based in Victoria, Seychelles. In this role, Anganuzzi had overall responsibility for planning, coordination, and administration of the Secretariat activities in accordance with the agreements and decisions of the members of the Commission, including scientific and compliance activities.
From 1998 to 2003, Mr. Anganuzzi served as the deputy secretary and science manager for the IOTC. While in this role, he supervised the technical activities of the Secretariat, including capacity building in data collection, database development, data analysis, production of publications in various formats, and development of software. He coordinated the support to meetings of the IOTC Working Parties and Scientific Committee, including scientific advice as requested, and assisted in the organization of the Commission and the Scientific Committee meetings.
Prior to his work at the IOTC, Anganuzzi also worked for the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) from 1984 to 1997, where, among other subjects, he worked on the estimation of abundance of dolphin populations, and on modeling of the dynamics of tuna fisheries in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
