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Renis Auma Ojwala

PhD Candidate and Research Assistant
WMU-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute

Renis Auma Ojwala is a PhD student at World Maritime University (WMU). She is under the “Empowering Women for the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development” Programme funded by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). Her research topic focuses on “Evaluating Gender Equality in Ocean Science for Sustainable Development in Kenya.” Renis received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Applied Aquatic Science from Egerton University in 2014. She later obtained a Master of Science Degree in Limnology and Wetland Management, a Joint International Master of Science Programme from BOKU University in Vienna Austria, Egerton University in Kenya and UNESCO-IHE (Currently, IHE-Delft) in Netherlands in 2017. Renis is passionate about gender equality and women’s empowerment in Ocean science and fisheries research related fields. She has worked with various institutions such Egerton University, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-Kenya), Victory Fish Farms and National Museum of Kenya.

Linda Del Savio

Project and Research Support Fellow

Linda Del Savio is Project and Research Support Fellow at the WMU-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute. She provides project, research and administrative support to the Institute’s programmes and to its events, training and capacity building activities under the WMU Ocean Research Agenda. Prior to joining WMU in her current position, she was Carlo Schmid Fellow to the Closing the Circle Programme, which focuses on exploring challenges and advancing potential solutions to marine debris, Sargassum and marine spatial planning (MSP) in the Eastern Caribbean. She holds a degree in Political Science from the University of Bonn and a MA in International Politics and International Law from the University of Kiel.