Professional Affiliation

Senior Advisor, Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC)

Expert Bio

Ricardo is an Antarctic conservation professional and independent scholar with extensive experience in research, analysis and advocacy in Antarctica and the Antarctic Treaty System. He serves as senior advisor for the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC), the official environmental NGO expert/observer to Antarctic Treaty System fora. He is ASOC’s Representative to the Committee for Environmental Protection, the environmental advisory body of the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting. He has spent fourteen seasons in Antarctica, including wintering-over, with inter alia Greenpeace, the Argentine Antarctic program, and the University of Canterbury (New Zealand). He has also conducted research in Svalbard with the Arctic Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands) where he earned his PhD. Ricardo is a social scientist with broad research interests on human behaviour and human-environment interactions in the polar regions. More recently he has focused on the geopolitics of the Southern Ocean and the global dimensions of Antarctic governance.