About
Dr. Myriam Khalfallah is an expert in natural resource management, environment, and climate change, with a focus on marine fisheries and ecosystems. Their work focuses on the impacts of climate change on data-poor marine fisheries and ecosystems in conflict and post-conflict zones.
Dr. Khalfallah serves as the Chief Technical Advisor and Senior Project Manager at WorldFish for the RedSeaFish project, where they lead the implementation across the project’s regional components in seven Red Sea countries.
They most recently served as the fisheries analyst for the 2026 fisheries audit at Oceana Canada and continue to act as visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Khalfallah previously served as project lead for a 7 million USD climate change adaptation initiative for marine fisheries, funded by the U.S. Department of State in Tunisia.
They hold a Ph.D. in Resource Management and Environmental Studies from the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) and the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (IOF) at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where they also completed their postdoctoral fellowship, as well as a Bachelor of Engineering in Environment, Agronomy, and Fisheries Sciences from the University of Carthage.
Outside of work, Dr. Khalfallah has been a photographer for over a decade. Born in Tunisia, they later moved to Vancouver, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples, in British Columbia, Canada. They are now based in Cairo, Egypt.
