Rob Williams

I’m a marine conservation biologist. Some happy accidents led me to studying whales, and although my work occasionally veers toward salmon, sharks or sunfish, most of my research involves whale and dolphin conservation. I like identifying gaps that affect our ability to protect marine wildlife, and developing pragmatic ways to fill in those gaps inexpensively, but well. I serve on the editorial boards of a few scientific journals; have been a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission since 2001; was the Canada-US Fulbright Chair at the University of Washington (Seattle, 2009-10); was a Marie Curie Research Fellow (University of St Andrews, Scotland, 2010-2012), and am currently a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation (2015-2018). My wife, daughter, dog & I divide our time between Seattle and British Columbia.