Dr. Umi Muawamah was graduated from many different science and technological background; however, during her last two degrees, she focused on the area of resource economics with speciality in marine and fisheries. Her profesional experience was mainly on the area of economic related to the marine and fisheries conservation. During her post graduate study, she has experienced as an teaching and research assistant in the area of environment and resource econmics at the University of Rhode Islands (2008) and University of Connecticut (2009-2012).Her one year Knauss Fellowship at the USFWS in the US has sharpen her interest in bridhing sciene to policy world. She has an excellent skills in economic modeling tools, bioeconomics, production models, econometrics including descrete choice models, impact evaluation, and impact evaluation. She uses tools such as MATLAB, SAS and STATA. Her research interests are economics of fishery management, co-management, and science to policy communication. During the last 5 years back to MMAF, she has been actively involve in the researches of national strategic issues such as impact of IUUF policies, economic integration model for fishery product added value industries, right-based fishery management in Indonesia, the tuna economics in Indonesia and many more. Furthermore, in many occations, she is active in the discourse of bridging research to policy and its recommendations.
Research Center for Socio-Economics of Marine Affairs and Fisheries Gedung Balitbang KP I, floor 4th, Ancol Timur Jakarta INDONESIA