Mr. Sheku Sei is A Fisheries and Aquaculture Management professional from Sierra Leone with over 23 years work experience. He is currently the Head of Division for Artisanal Fisheries, Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture. Mr. Sei is a Duke University Global Fellow in Marine Conservation and Policy, a United Nations Fellow in Marine Affairs and the Law of the Sea, a Commonwealth Scholar in Oceans Law and Policy from the International Ocean Institute, Dalhousie University, Canada. Mr. Sei possess expertise in geographic information systems (GIS) with advanced knowledge in the use of ArcGIS, Surfer, survey mapper, Google Earth, and other topographic mapping skills. He was recently part of the ESHIA studies for the construction of fish harbor complex and he lead the environmental studies for the feasibility study for construction of 8 km coastal bridge-Lungi Bridge. Mr. Sei is a recipient of the Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR) Scholarship and holds the Interuniversity Master of Science degree in Ecological Marine Management from the Vrije University of Brussels and University of Antwerp in Belgium.

He is also a recipient of the Prestigious Rhodes Oceans Scholar Diploma in Oceans Law and Policy from Greece. His career path has been partly in Teaching of Aquatic Resources Management and Economics at the Institute of Marine Biology and Oceanography (IMBO), University of Sierra Leone, as a Lecturer and Head of Department for Physical Sciences at the University of Liberia and Lecturer in Mathematics and Computer Science at the AME Zion University College in Liberia in the year of 2000. He served as Head of the Statistics, Research and Policy Unit of the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources in Sierra Leone and as Assistant Director engaged in oceanographic and fisheries research and policy planning in the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources from 2013 to 2015. Mr. Sei is a trained acoustician and has participated in several fishery abundance survey cruises, including R/V Dr. Fridtjof Nansen of the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research. He is Co-founder and Director of operations of the Natural Resource Management Consortium (NaReMaC), Fourah Bay College Campus, University of Sierra Leone.

In 2019 He led the bathymetric and coastal hydrodynamics studies for the design and construction of an 8km coastal bridge linking Sierra Leone’s capital to the Lungi International Airport. Mr. Sei has been largely engaged in national, regional and international dialogue on ocean governance and sustainable development and he was a member of the planning group for UN Decade of Oceans for sustainable development. He is a member of the Early Career Ocean Professionals (ECOP) of the UN decade of Ocean Sciences. In 2018, Mr. Sei received the North Pacific Marine Science Organization award to deliver an oral presentation at the 4t International Symposium on the impacts of climate change on the World’s Oceans in Washington DC, USA. Recently in 2023, Mr. Sei received an award from the North Pacific Marine Science Organization to deliver an oral and poster presentation at Fifth international Symposium on the Impacts of Climate Change on the World Oceans (ECCOW-05) in Bergen, Norway.

He is published in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He is Alternate Focal Point for the Blue Economy at the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources in Sierra Leone. His recent career interest is in the development of climate change adaptation policy planning for coastal communities, to build resilience of coastal communities against the impact. climate change and to enhance the blue economy in Africa.