2024 WILLIAM CHEUNG

The 2024 A.G. Huntsman Award is awarded to William Cheung in recognition of his outstanding achievements in research focused on climate change, biodiversity and ocean sustainability as well as his efforts to connect marine sciences to the social sciences. Dr. Cheung’s work recognizes the interdependence of ocean systems and human systems and that the scale of climate change impacts range from local to global, as do the needs for solutions.
William Cheung is a Professor, Canada Research Chair in Ocean Sustainability and Global Change, and the Director of the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, at the University of British Columbia. He is the Principal Investigator of the Changing Ocean Research Unit at UBC. He serves as Director for a 6-year partnership with Canada’s Social Science funding agency focused on “Solving the Sustainability Challenges at the Food-Climate-Biodiversity Nexus”. Dr. Cheung is actively involved in international and regional initiatives that bridge science and policy and has served as the Coordinating Lead Author for the Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Dr. Cheung obtained his BSc and M.Phil. from the University of Hong Kong. He completed his PhD in Resource Management and Environmental Studies at UBC. From 2009 to 2011, he was Lecturer in Marine Ecosystem Services in the University of East Anglia before returning to UBC.
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