#32 Arthur Tuda: Blue collaborative leadership in Western Indian Ocean Governance

#32 Arthur Tuda: Blue collaborative leadership in Western Indian Ocean Governance

From Ocean Collaborations by Ocean Collaborations from Jan Maisenbacher

June 4, 2026 · 49 min

About this episode

Arthur Tuda discusses the challenges and realities of managing marine protected areas in the Western Indian Ocean.

Arthur is Executive Director of the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA) and brings more than two decades of experience in marine conservation and marine protected area management. If you work in ocean conservation, marine policy, philanthropy, impact, or the blue economy, you probably know this feeling: there is no shortage of ambition. More targets. More declarations. More conferences. More language about transformation. And yet the hardest questions remain: * Who is actually managing marine protected areas? * How do we move from protection on paper to protection in practice? * And what kind of leadership does this moment really require? These are exactly the questions that make this Ocean Collaborations episode with Arthur Tuda worth your time. What makes this conversation so compelling is that it is not abstract. It is rooted in the reality of governing ocean systems in a region where collaboration is essential, resources are stretched, and communities depend directly on the sea. One of the clearest insights from the episode is this: declaring protected areas is the easy part. Managing them well is the hard part. That distinction matters. A marine…

People in this episode

Host: Jan Maisenbacher

Guest: Arthur Tuda

Topics covered

  • marine conservation
  • marine protected areas
  • ocean governance
  • collaborative leadership
  • blue economy

Keywords

  • marine conservation
  • ocean governance
  • marine protected areas
  • collaboration
  • blue economy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association

Places: Western Indian Ocean

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