Liam Campling

Liam Campling is Professor of International Business and Development at Queen Mary University of London. He has worked on international fisheries trade policy and global value chains for 20 years. He has published numerous academic articles and books, including Capitalism and the Sea (Verso 2021), Free Trade Agreements and Global Labour Governance (Routledge, 2021), and co-edited Labour Regimes and Global Production (Agenda/ Colombia University Press, 2022). He co-writes the bi-monthly FFA Trade and Industry News for Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency, as well as a series of reports on the tuna industry, most recently Markets and Trade Dynamics. In 2018-24 he was Fisheries Expert in a team supporting the Pacific Islands Forum Geneva office on WTO negotiations for an Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies; and between 2020-2023 he led an international team mapping and analysing fisheries access arrangements for the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. He has also done applied research and analysis for Commonwealth Secretariat, East African Community, European Commission and Parliament, UNCTAD, and the governments of Mauritius and Seychelles.