Neil Loneragan is a Professor Emeritus at Murdoch University with research interests covering fish and invertebrate ecology, estuarine and marine food webs, stock enhancement, ecosystem modelling and small-scale fisheries. He spent 14 years with CSIRO researching prawn/shrimp fisheries and habitats in northern Australia and through southeast Asia. At Murdoch, he has been Director of the Centre for Fisheries and Aquatic Ecosystems Research, leader of the Environmental and Conservation Sciences and has completed ~30 PhD, 10 Masters and 35 Honours candidates, including students from Indonesia and Malaysia and postdoctoral fellows from China. He has delivered training workshops in Indonesia on Fisheries Science, Management Strategy Evaluation for Data-Limited Fisheries and Ecosystem Modelling for Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management and has published ~200 articles in international journals, edited one book and five special symposia. He is the immediate President of the Asian Fisheries Society, Editor-in-Chief of Asian Fisheries Science and holds an Adjunct Professorship with IPB University in Indonesia and a Visiting Professorship with Universiti Putra Malaysia.