Miguel MARQUES

Economist. Blue Info Global Leader and Skipper & Wool Founding Partner. Porto, Portugal.

Miguel Marques founded Skipper & Wool and its international thought leadership project named Blue Info, which aims to make relevant contributions to the various pieces missing for the complex "blue puzzle" of sustainable development of our oceans, seas, rivers and lakes, as well as climate change mitigation and adaptation. At the core of the activity of Blue Info is the analysis of blue big data. Before Blue Info, Miguel Marques was a PwC Partner and founded and led for over a decade (2010-2020) PwC’s Blue Economy Global Centre of Excellence. A subject matter expert on the blue economy, Miguel is author of several books and more than 100 blue economy reports and studies all around the world and regularly speaks at conferences (including the UN, EU and World Bank) and other events, attends meetings with shareholders, boards of directors and senior management around the world, sharing insights and best practices. He is regularly invited as keynote speaker in relevant international blue economy forums and has also been featured in a number of reputable journals and newspapers.