Vonintsoa Rafaly

Vonintsoa Rafaly

Vonintsoa RAFALY is a Postdoctoral fellow at the World Maritime University (WMU)-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute, under the Future Ocean Programme funded by The Nippon Foundation. Her research focuses on the fourth pillar of the programme on “Futures of Ocean Governance”. She holds a doctorate degree from the University of Nantes (France). Before joining the Institute, Dr. Rafaly was a Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Gothenburg and the University of Copenhagen. Her research interests revolve around rethinking ocean governance to better address global environmental challenges, examining both theoretical and practical perspectives, with a particular focus on analysing how norms, institutions, and legal processes yield distributional effects as they operate and evolve in different spatial and temporal conditions. She has evolved in an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research setting, examining the intersection between ocean, biodiversity and climate change governance toward environmental stewardship and transformative governance. She is a member of the scientific committee of the Annuaire de droit maritime et océanique and participates in several initiatives both at the national, regional and global level.