Daniela Kalikoski joined the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as a fishery officer in 2012 and currently coordinates the work on social protection and decent employment in the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Division. She has over 20 years of work experience in FAO and elsewhere and have a solid theoretical background on fisheries management with particular emphasis on fisheries co-management and community-based management acquired during her Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia (UBC, Canada). From 2019-2010 she was the Deputy-Leader of the FAO Strategic Programme on Rural Poverty Reduction overseeing the work on collective action and empowerment of rural communities, climate change and poverty nexus and decent work and social protection. She has extensive experience in the interface between social and natural resources governance, as well as in building communities’ resilience to climate change- and natural resources management. Before joining FAO she worked as a professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande, Brazil, and coordinated several national and international projects and initiatives focused on social policies, social protection and community-based natural resources management and conservation.
