Nesar Ahmed is an Economic Advisor, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). Prior to joining DFO, Nesar worked at Deakin University, Australia and University of Manitoba, Canada. Nesar was also a Humboldt Foundation’s Georg Forster Fellow at the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Germany. Nesar obtained the Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Michigan, USA. Nesar received PhD from the University of Stirling, UK through Department for International Development (DFID), UK scholarship and won the Endeavour Postdoc Fellowship at Charles Darwin University, Australia.