Reef Conservation UK 2019 - Plenary Speakers

We are delighted to announce RCUK 2019 will feature two fantastic plenary speakers:

Estradivari
WWF-Indonesia

Estradivari is Conservation Research Manager at WWF-Indonesia. She is a leading Indonesian marine conservation scientist, with over 15 years experience coordinating marine conservation projects to promote biodiversity conservation and sustainable fisheries. Her work has influenced Indonesian government policy spanning the national to district level. Most recently, Estradivari has been responsible for developing a marine protected area network across Indonesia's Sunda-Banda region based on implementing best-practice biodiversity, fisheries, and social science. She has a diverse research background, spanning marine and coastal ecology, ecological and social impact evaluation, marine conservation, and fisheries management. Prior joining WWF Indonesia, Estradivari worked for 10 years for UNESCO and the Indonesian Coral Reef Foundation.

Johann Mourier
Marine Biodiversity Exploitation and Conservation Lab, France​

​Johann Mourier is a marine behavioural ecologist at the Marine Biodiversity Exploitation and Conservation lab (MARBEC) in France. His research has focused for the last 15 years on the ecology and conservation of marine predators, primarily sharks. He has been studying the behavioural ecology, trophic ecology, movement ecology and conservation biology of sharks using multiple advanced and non-invasive approaches including underwater observations, biologging, genetics, stable isotope analyses and network theory. Much of his research has been focused around the remote and healthy coral reefs of French Polynesia (Pacific Ocean) where he has also been involved in an elasmobranch citizen science program for the past 8 years. In the last 5 years, he has been leading a research project in the atoll of Fakarava in one of the largest aggregations of reef sharks with the objective to better understand the role these predators have in the coral reef ecosystem.