Yoshitaka Ota
Professor of practice, Marine and environmental affairs, and Director, Ocean Nexus Center
Environmental justice
Expertise: Ocean governance, ocean equity, marine plastics
Yoshitaka (Yoshi) Ota has a background in social anthropology at the University College London. He has conducted ethnographic research on various coastal communities — including in Palau, U.K., Indonesia and Japan — studying peoples’ relationship to oceans. He has been engaged in policy research involving coastal communities, marine conservation and human security. Ota directs the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center, an international initiative based at the UW that works to bring together equity and justice in the oceans on a global scale.
