Doug Waley has a background in political and development economics studies, and several years in stakeholder engagement roles within large scale research projects in Asia and Africa focused on sustainability and ethical issues in aquaculture production and export.

For four years Doug has been the Fish Welfare Programme Leader at Eurogroup for Animals, lobbying for better regulations at EU level and for applying non-legislative instruments to raising fish welfare standards. He also has a role in supporting and coordinating communications and lobby work among Eurogroup’s 70 member organisations, and is currently a member of the fish welfare technical committees of both the Aquaculture Stewardship Council and Global Aquaculture Alliance BAP certification schemes.