Rob Johnson

Rob Johnson is the Senior Corporate Engagement Advisor, Fisheries and Aquaculture at The Nature Conservancy (TNC). He is an experienced seafood sustainability professional that brings together a background of business partnership leadership, markets-based sustainable seafood program development, and industry procurement and supply chain management. He has worked with varied market tools for environmental sustainability and social and economic responsibility, with an aim towards building resilience, systems coherence, and transformation. Rob has a Master of Science in Natural Resource and Ecosystem Management from Stockholm University, has worked as an independent consultant, Managing Director of Sea Pact, and Atlantic Canada SeaChoice lead.

He has further background in high-level negotiation/mediation, collaborative partnerships in coalitions, stakeholder engagement, and is an advocate for both collaboration and competition drivers for sector-wide change.