One firm.
Four domains.
Integrated delivery.
BGA is built like
an octopus.
BGA is built like an octopus. One brain, coordinated disciplines, every engagement drawing on the expertise it needs.
"We work where ocean policy, capital, science, and community intersect. Eight specialist capabilities sit inside one operating model so that we can move from sovereign strategy to community livelihoods within the same week."
Policy & Practice
Fisheries Reform & Governance
Institutional ArchitectureThree decades of fisheries reform have produced compliance frameworks, not stock recovery. Reform is not paperwork. It is the redesign of incentives, jurisdiction, and accountability across the value chain.
We work the political economy.
Subsidy diagnostics. Co-management design. Traceability and digital monitoring architecture. Reform sequencing and political risk mapping.
Active client engagement with the Seafood Task Force · Historical board duties at MSC and Blue Ventures · Community Catch via SFACT · USAID SEA Indonesia · BSC and Snapper Fisheries (Packard, Walton).
MPA & Spatial Planning
Governance DesignThe 30x30 commitment generated paper parks at scale. Coverage targets are met. Ecological function is not. The next decade is about converting paper coverage into functional protection.
We treat MPAs as governance design problems.
Marine spatial planning. MPA financing architecture. Effectiveness diagnostics and management plan redesign.
Coral Triangle MPA Network (six countries, 100+ MPAs) · WCS Bohol Sea / Siquijor · Sulu-Sulawesi Seascape · Viet Nam's first community-led MPA.
Finance & Economics
Blue Finance
Capital DeploymentOver £721 million directed to date. Most issuance is not additional; the label is outrunning the substance. We bridge the credibility gap by building projects that can absorb real capital.
We build the projects that absorb the capital.
Blended finance structuring. Outcome-linked instrument design. Project pipeline development. Issuer due diligence.
FCDO COAST blue finance strategy · ADB Blue Economy Advisor · ISLME Sustainable Aquaculture (GEF) · ocean-tech venture advisory.
Blue Economy Strategy
Strategic CoherenceMost strategies are sectoral catalogues that fail to resolve trade-offs. We write the ones that survive cabinet and lead to implementation pipelines linked to finance.
We write the ones that survive cabinet.
National and sub-national strategy design. Sectoral contribution analysis. Inter-ministerial coordination architecture. Implementation pipelines.
BIMP-EAGA and IMT-GT Blue Economy Strategy 2030 (ADB) · Blue Livelihoods (ADB) · COAST planning · SME Blue Impact ASEAN.
Science & Exponentials
Marine Science & Data
Evidence SystemsOcean science is rich but decision-making is data-poor. The pipeline from evidence to policy is broken. We build the science-to-policy translation systems that national institutions need.
We build that capacity.
National ocean data platforms. Science-to-policy translation systems. Monitoring and evidence frameworks. Independent technical review.
World Bank Indonesia Ocean Monitoring System (flagship) · Komnas KAJISKAN capacity building · Marine Policy (2022) journal publication · MSC scientific review.
AI & Digital Systems
Institutional VelocityAI adoption is happening to the sector, not by it. We deploy AI as institutional capacity—automated monitoring and digital twins—to accelerate marine spatial planning.
We deploy AI as institutional capacity, not as a chatbot.
AI-first operating system design. Automated monitoring and reporting pipelines. Digital twins for marine spatial planning. Capacity building.
World Bank Indonesia Ocean Monitoring System · Cognisee AI · USAID SuFiA TS regional AI/ML review · Singularity University A360.
People & Resilience
Coastal Communities & Resilience
Restorative EconomicsResilience is a trap; regeneration is a strategy. Communities don't need to be resilient to a failing system—they need a different system with secure tenure and rights.
We design coastal programmes that build economic strength, not coping capacity.
Coastal economy regeneration strategies. Tenure, rights, and benefit-sharing frameworks. Community-routed climate finance architecture.
Pamilacan Island 28-year regeneration · Adjunct Professor Communications for Conservation · 24 consecutive Rare Pride campaigns · Walton livelihoods.
Donor Strategy & Capacity
Portfolio DesignThe donor architecture is fragmented. The bottleneck is design quality, not capital volume. We work the design layer on both sides to align funding with actual country needs.
We work the design layer on both sides.
Donor portfolio reviews. Sovereign capacity building for ocean programming. Independent quality-at-entry review. TA design and sequencing.
Packard Foundation six-country Western Pacific exit · ADB Healthy Oceans Programme · UK FCDO Blue Planet Fund Advisory Board.
Cross-cutting capabilities
that operate across all domains.
Learning networks and coalitions
We convene and facilitate multi-actor learning networks across institutions, countries, and disciplines. When your initiative needs aligned actors who have never worked together, we build the architecture for them to do so.
Consortium management
We manage multi-partner delivery consortia on behalf of donors. When your programme has five implementing partners across four countries, we hold the operational centre: timelines, reporting, quality, accountability.
Proposal development
We help clients develop winning proposals and concept notes. When you need to move from idea to fundable design, we bring the sector knowledge, the institutional framing, and the track record that procurement committees look for.
Ecosystem building
We build new institutional ecosystems where none existed before. New coalitions, new financing mechanisms, new governance arrangements, new market structures.
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