Andrew Price is a professorial fellow at Warwick University. He has over 30 years of international experience in a range of marine environment-development activities. Early in his career, Andrew spent 5 years with the oil company, SAUDI-ARAMCO.

Since the early 2000s, Andrew has undertaken assignments for the UN Compensation Commission, GEF, the Government of Kuwait, PERSGA, UNESCO, SIDA, Maldives Ministry of Tourism, Bermuda National Trust, the European Environment Agency, and Buro Happold.

Andrew’s research interests and related activities encompass:

• Tropical marine ecosystems and delineation of biodiversity patterns, mainly in the Indian Ocean

• Ecology of the Arabian Gulf, including assessment of marine pollution, war damage and other impacts

• Integrated coastal management (e.g. for zoning of activities including tourism and protected areas, and development of new environmental Protocols for Gulf and Red Sea States)

• Robustness (resilience) as a framework for characterizing coastal systems and, potentially, many other systems; we have recently formulated a new metric of robustness

• Novel application of a marine ecological similarity index (we developed in 2001) to forensic psychology, to improve detection of serial sexual offences

Andrew has a PhD and MSc in Marine Zoology from the University of Wales, and he is a Fellow of the Linnean Society.  His forthcoming book (Atlantic Books), Slow Tech: Manifesto For An Over-Wound World, promotes robustness as an antidote to modernity’s obsession with efficiency at all costs.