Rafid Shidqi

Rafid Shidqi is a marine conservationist by training from Indonesia. He is a current PhD student at Duke University and the Founder of Thresher Shark Indonesia, a youth-led NGO focused on conserving endangered sharks and transitioning communities from traditional shark hunting into alternative livelihoods through research, education, and policy change.

Before coming to Duke, Rafid completed consultancy roles with various global institutions, such as the Asian Development Bank, where he led the implementation of climate change initiatives for young people in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Atoll countries. He also worked with the FAO in Indonesia as a specialist in small-scale fisheries development, documenting best practices for implementing the FAO's voluntary guidelines in small-scale fisheries. His other roles include the Sustainable Ocean Alliance, where he facilitated youths in Asia-Pacific to access funds to lead community-based initiatives in marine conservation, climate adaptation, and mitigation.

Rafid earned an MS in Coastal Science and Policy from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He also received a certificate in Sustainable Environmental Management from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a 2022 Graduate Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science (ICCS) in the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford.