Dr. Anthony (Tony) Charles is Director of the School of the Environment at Saint Mary's University (Canada), where he also holds a dual appointment as Professor of Management Science within the Sobey School of Business, and professor of Environmental Science in the Faculty of Science. Dr. Charles is an inherently interdisciplinary researcher, linking natural, social and management sciences, focusing on fisheries and marine social-ecological systems. His contributions are particularly in four key areas: small-scale fisheries and community-based fishery management; policy and practice for sustainability and resilience in fishery and ocean governance; strategies for handling uncertainty and climate change in fisheries and marine systems; and the human dimensions of the ecosystem approach and of spatial management. Internationally, Dr. Charles is a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation, recipient of the Gulf of Maine Visionary Award, Past-President of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade and currently Director of the Community Conservation Research Network. Within Canada, Dr. Charles works closely with a range of coastal communities and Indigenous organizations, drawing on past work as a research scientist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), a member of the DFO Science Advisory Council and Founding Director of Canada's Ocean Management Research Network. Dr. Charles is the author or co-author of well over a hundred publications, including several books, notably Sustainable Fishery Systems. He collaborates internationally with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Dr. Charles currently serves as Vice-Chair of the IUCN-CEM Fisheries Expert Group.