Alfredo is Head of the World Economic Forum’s Ocean Action Agenda and Friends of Ocean Action, leading strategy across a wide range of ocean work. The Ocean Action Agenda work aims to create business and policy transformations for a sustainable ocean. He has wide experience spearheading the creation of public-private partnerships to address pressing ocean challenges related to marine conservation and restoration, sustainable fisheries management, and accelerating the blue economy. His work has contributed to strengthening the role of science in marine policy in over 15 countries. Before joining the Forum, Alfredo was an André Hoffmann fellow at the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions and the World Economic Forum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR), where he led the creation of scientific and technological solutions to combat illegal fishing. He holds a PhD and MSc from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a Bachelor in Science from the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California. He was selected as the Roger Revelle awardee by the US National Academy of Sciences in 2021 for his contributions to global ocean policy.
La economía oceánica sustenta a millones de personas y es la base de algunas de las industrias más importantes del mundo. Desde el transporte marítimo, que mueve el 80% del comercio mundi...
The ocean economy supports millions and underpins some of the world’s most critical industries. From maritime shipping, which carries 80% of global trade, to the undersea fibre-optic cabl...
Cuando la sonda Voyager 1 de la NASA capturó una famosa imagen fotográfica de la Tierra en 1990, la foto inspiró el científico Carl Sagan a referirse poéticamente a nuestro planeta como "...
When humans arrived at the moon on NASA's Voyager 1, a famous photo image was captured of our planet Earth, the planet scientist Carl Sagan memorably called the "pale blue dot."
The ocean is vital to all life on Earth, it regulates our climate and provides food sources for billions of people. If it weren’t for the ocean, our planet would be a lot warmer as it abs...
世界各地的领导人齐聚第28届联合国气候变化大会（COP28），讨论海洋和气候问题的解决方案。然而，受气候变化影响最严重的人群总是不受重视，缺少发声的机会。
Leaders from across the world will convene to discuss ocean and climate solutions at the United Nations' climate conference, COP28. However, all too often, the voices of those most affect...
The ocean is everywhere, even when we don’t see it. It connects us all – through weather and oxygen, food and fishing, carbon absorption and heat buffering, tourism and trade. And it know...
It is estimated that illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing represents up to 20% of global seafood catch. IUU fishing has been linked to organized crime and human rights violat...
The Gulf of California – a sea near the western border of the U.S. and Mexico – is home to some of the world’s most incredible underwater landscapes. It generates 60% of Mexico’s fish cat...
In a global push to protect global marine biodiversity, a growing number of countries have pledged and are taking action to protect 30% of the ocean by 2030, a movement known as '30x30'. ...
