Dr. Manoj Sharma

Dr. Manoj Sharma is a pioneer shrimp farming professional with more than 26 years of experience in sustainable shrimp farming practices. Dr. Sharma advocates for lower stocking density shrimp farming and his publication “Farming Vannamei the Tiger way” attracted many farmers nationally and internationally. He is regularly invited to various international conferences to deliver talks regarding his shrimp farming techniques.

Daniela R. Waldhorn

Daniela R. Waldhorn is a Senior Research Manager at Rethink Priorities, where she researches farmed invertebrate welfare issues. She's also a Ph.D. researcher at the Department of Social Psychology at the University of Barcelona, a member of the Centre for Animal Ethics, and an Associate Professor at Pompeu Fabra University. Daniela worked previously in research and management for organizations like Animal Ethics, Animal Equality, and Sinergia Animal.

Douglas Waley

Douglas Waley is the Fish Welfare Programme Leader at Eurogroup for Animals. He leads political advocacy work at the EU level on the welfare of farmed and wild fish and aquatic invertebrates, and supports a working group of member animal advocacy organisations in their own projects and in collaborating together.

Pauline Vaskou

Pauline believes that behaviour change is key to solving environmental problems and that business should be a force for good. She currently leads the climate and responsible Investment strategy at Aegon UK. She previously managed multi million conservation grants for Bloomberg Philanthropies and led the responsible sourcing strategy for some of the products with the highest human rights and environmental risks at Tesco PLC.

Claire Howard

Claire Howard is a founding member, now Director, of Crustacean Compassion whose campaigning led to the scientific and legal recognition of the sentience of decapod crustaceans in the UK. A recipient of the RSPCA Honours Campaigner Award, Claire is a passionate advocate of evidence-based campaigning.  She has worked on animal welfare issues internationally and is currently an active trustee and director on several non-profit boards.

Tse Yip Fai

Tse Yip Fai holds a degree in Chemistry from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and one in Banking and Finance from the University of London. He is a 2021 Foresight Fellow in Animal Ethics For Artificial Intelligence. He was previously the China Strategy Consultant for Mercy For Animals, responsible for research and strategy for their expansion plans in China and Asia. Currently the Research Assistant for Prof. Peter Singer at Princeton University, Fai is researching the impact and ethics of artificial intelligence on nonhuman animals.

Karoline Sarek

Karolina is co-founder and Director of Programs at Charity Entrepreneurship. Karolina also serves as a Fund Manager at Effective Altruism Animal Welfare Fund and a board member and advisor for various EA nonprofits and think tanks, such as Fish Welfare Initiative, WANBAM, and Legal Priorities Project. Before that, she co-founded an organization to improve the impact of nonprofits and social enterprises; worked on measurement and evaluation; and was a researcher for IBM and the Jagiellonian University, where at the age of 22 she became a teaching fellow.