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Audun Lem
Deputy Director of Fisheries and Aquaculture in the FAO.
Audun has been with FAO for more than 25 years, where he is currently a Deputy Director of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Division. Audun has been with FAO for more than 25 years, where he is currently a Deputy Director of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Division.
His thematic work areas include aquaculture policy development and management, commodity price trends and price indexes, policy issues related to international trade and market access, market-based instruments, social responsibility, certification, traceability, trade and food security, gender issues, and domestic and regional market development.
Before joining FAO, he worked as an independent agribusiness consultant, project manager at Norway’s Embassy in Italy, and financial analyst on the Oslo Stock Exchange.
Audun has a Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences from the Sea Fisheries Institute in Poland, a Master’s in Business Administration from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics.