Dr. Yvette Diei-Ouadi

Dr Yvette Diei-Ouadi, Fishery and Aquaculture Officer, WECAFC Secretary, FAO Subregional Office for the Caribbean, Barbados

Dr Yvette Diei-Ouadi holds a veterinary doctorate, from the Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire in Nantes, in France. She has over twenty-five years of experience in fisheries value chain efficiency enhancement.

Dr Diei-Ouadi is the Fishery and Aquaculture Officer of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) subregional office for the Caribbean, based in Barbados, which she joined in July 2018, following 14 years of assignment in FAO Headquarters (Rome/Italy). She coordinates as well the Secretariat of the Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission (WECAFC), a regional fishery body which promotes the effective conservation, management and development of the living marine resources of its area of competence.  

Within her current assignment, she has been coordinating the provision of technical assistance to WECAFC members, including 14 CARICOM Member States, leading on projects and programmes implementation, partnership building and mobilizing funding to support wide ranging multidisciplinary and intersectoral interventions of relevance to achieving the 2030 agenda for sustainable development, to include but not limited to ocean governance, fisheries management, resilient and sustainable fisheries and aquaculture.