Nicolás Gutiérrez

Nicolas L. Gutierrez is a Senior Fishery Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) based in Rome, Italy, where he provides technical leadership on all aspects of fisheries management in support of FAO programmes of work and country needs, including regional and global policy. He has been the Lead Technical Officer for several GEF-funded projects, including the Common Oceans Tuna project, and the Coastal Fisheries Initiative. Gutierrez is the Secretary of the Sub-Committee on Fisheries Management of FAO´s Committee of Fisheries, created in 2023 to provide essential technical and policy guidance on fisheries governance and management, with the aim of advancing the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries.

Prior to joining FAO in 2015, Gutiérrez was the Head of Strategic Research for the London-based Marine Stewardship Council. Gutiérrez has a PhD in Fisheries Sciences from the University of Washington (Seattle, USA) and a MSc in Biology from the University of Uruguay, having worked in fisheries management at the national and international level for 25 years. He has more than 40 publications in scientific journals, including Nature and Science. He has received the Fulbright Scholarship (USA), the Ecology Initiative Award from the Organization of American States, a National Science Foundation Fellowship (USA), and a Pew Marine Fellowship (declined).