Yvette Diei-Ouadi holds a veterinary doctorate, from the Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire in Nantes, in France. She has over twenty-five years of experience in fisheries value chain efficiency enhancement.
She is the Fishery and Aquaculture Officer of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) subregional office for the Caribbean, based in Barbados, that she joined in July 2018, following 14 years of assignment in FAO Headquarters (Rome/Italy).
She coordinates the Secretariat of the Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission (WECAFC) as well, a 34-member regional fishery body which promotes the effective conservation, management, and development of the living marine resources of its area of competence.
