Dame Mboup

Dame Mboup is Global Fishing Watch’s regional program lead in Africa, advocating for transparency across the fisheries sector by providing public information related to monitoring, control, and surveillance (MCS).

A former Senegalese Navy captain, Mboup served as the director of Senegal’s MCS department. He was also a member of the drafting group for the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization’s Port States Measures Agreement—adopted in 2009—to deter illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and vice president in the technical consultation to finalize the text. Mboup served as chairman of the Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission Monitoring Working Group which supported the management of combined fisheries surveillance operations in respective waters. He also represented his country in the International Conference on the Governance of High Seas Fisheries and the U.N. Fish Stocks Agreement in St. Johns, Canada in 2005.

Mboup is certified in public management and administration and completed coursework at the Ghana Armed Forced Command and Staff College.