Megan Bailey

Megan is a SSHRC Canada Research Chair in Integrated Ocean and Coastal Governance at Dalhousie’s Marine Affairs Program (https://www.dal.ca/faculty/science/marine-affairs-program.html). She has an undergraduate zoology degree from Western University, and completed her Masters and PhD at UBC’s Fisheries Centre, focusing on fisheries economics relating to global tuna fisheries. Megan's current work focuses on allocation and access across domestic and international fisheries, with a focus on Indigenous fisheries rights implementation in Canada and decolonizing international tuna fisheries governance. She has published over 100 scientific articles and book chapters, and has two edited books: Sea Change: Charing a Course for Sustainable Seas (Sumaila, Armitage, Bailey and Cheung, UBC Press) and Food Secure Futures: Multidisciplinary Solutions (Duncan and Bailey, Routledge).