Blue Food Futures Program Manager

Josheena Naggea

Josheena is the Blue Food Futures Program Manager at the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions. Previously, she was an André Hoffmann Ocean Innovation Fellow at the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions and the World Economic Forum. Her work focused on supporting local blue food innovation and community inclusion in blue carbon initiatives for the Blue Carbon Action Partnership.

Her prior community-engaged research focused on small-scale fisheries, disaster impacts and recovery, marine protected area management, and the valorization of natural and cultural heritage in ocean governance. She has a keen interest in understanding people-ocean connections and how that influences pro-ecological behavior and local environmental stewardship.

She is also an IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) fellow on the Transformative Change Assessment, investigating the determinants of transformative change and pathways for achieving the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity.

Josheena holds a Ph.D. in Environment and Resources from Stanford University. Her doctoral work aimed to support ocean governance in the Western Indian Ocean, with a focus on the Republic of Mauritius, her home country. She is a founding member of the newly created Africa-Europe Group on Ocean Governance and the Blue Economy and the chairperson of the national steering committee of the Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme, implemented by the United Nations Development Programme in Mauritius, where she continues to support community-led efforts for sustainability, biodiversity conservation, and poverty alleviation.

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Publications

Claudet, J., Blythe, J., Gill, D., & et al, . (2024). Advancing ocean equity at the nexus of development, climate and conservation policy. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02417-5
Ban, N., & et al, . (2023). Effects of management objectives and rules on marine conservation outcomes. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14156
Spalding, A., Grorud-Colvert, K., Allison, E., & et al, . (2023). Engaging the tropical majority to make ocean governance and science more equitable and effective. Engaging the tropical majority to make ocean governance and science more equitable and effective. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-023-00015-9
Wabnitz, C., Harper, S., Naggea, J., & et al, . (2023). Gender and Fisheries - the Republic of Mauritius. Country Fact Sheet.. Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA). https://oceanrisk.earth/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Mauritius-Fact-sheet.pdf
Gill, D., & et al, . (2023). Triple exposure: Reducing negative impacts of climate change, blue growth, and conservation on coastal communities. One Earth, 6(2), 118-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.01.010
Naggea, J. ., & Miller, R. (2023). A comparative case study of multistakeholder responses following oil spills in Pointe d’Esny, Mauritius, and Huntington Beach, California. Ecology and Society. https://ecologyandsociety.org/vol28/iss1/art24/
Blythe, J., & et al, . (2023). Blue justice: A review of emerging scholarship and resistance movements. Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures. https://doi.org/10.1017/cft.2023.4