Dr. Audun Lem

Deputy Director of the Policy and Resources Division in the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, FAO

Audun is Deputy Director of the Policy and Resources Division in the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). He is particularly involved with value chain analysis, capacity building, and policy issues related to international trade and market access, as well as food security. For many years, he was the Secretary of FAO’s Subcommittee for Fish Trade, the principal forum among governments for discussion of relevant fish trade matters. Before joining FAO in 1996 he worked for the Norwegian Embassy’s trade mission in Milan and as a private consultant on various fisheries and aquaculture topics. Audun holds a B.Sc in Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen, an MBA from Harvard and a PhD from Poland’s Sea Fisheries Institute.