Maisie Pigeon is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center. She is the director for the Coalition for Fisheries Transparency, an international network of civil society organizations committed to improving data transparency in the fisheries sector. She oversees the coalition’s day-to-day work and works closely with the secretariat staff, Steering Committee, and member organizations to develop strategies to improve fisheries transparency across the globe.

Prior to joining the Coalition for Fisheries Transparency, she spent over a decade working alongside governments and international organizations to promote initiatives to secure maritime spaces, encourage good ocean governance, promote blue economic growth, and stabilize coastal communities in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere. Pigeon has served as a consultant to the Global Maritime Crime Programme at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the International Maritime Organization, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the European Union’s Critical Maritime Routes project, and the Defense Security Cooperation University for the US Department of Defense.