Born and raised on Fogo Island off the northeast coast of Newfoundland/Ktaqmkuk, Dr. Paul Foley is a Professor at the Environmental Policy Institute at Memorial University’s Grenfell Campus in Corner Brook. Paul received a PhD in Political Science from York University in Toronto in 2012 after completing a Master of Arts in International Development Studies at Dalhousie University and a Bachelor of Arts in History at Memorial University. He teaches in areas of environmental politics and environmental policy, and his interdisciplinary research supports critical approaches to fisheries and oceans knowledge across ecological, economic, social, and governance dimensions. He is currently engaged in several Ocean Frontier Institute research projects, including as co-Principal Investigator of the Future Ocean and Coastal Infrastructures (FOCI) collaborative research initiative.