Dr Patrick McConney is a former fisheries manager with an interdisciplinary PhD in resource management from the University of British Columbia in Canada.

He is a current member of the Board of the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute, and a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES) of The University of the West Indies in Barbados.

He teaches blended and online graduate courses in environmental and resource management. His current applied research and that of his students focus on small-scale fisheries and marine protected area social-ecological systems in the wider Caribbean. This research includes ecosystem approaches, livelihoods, socioeconomics, gender, adaptive capacity, resilience, management, planning, institutions, organisations and governance.

In addition to his teaching responsibilities, as an academic Dr McConney has produced notable publications including both Building the Barbados National Union of Fisherfolk Organisations and Caribbean Fisherfolk Engage the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines in 2017 and Organising for Good Fisheries Governance in 2016.

Dr McConney’s research also involves development and outreach activities done in partnership with regional and international inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI), Caribbean Network of Fisherfolk Organisations (CNFO) and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).