Dr. Elias Rabson Chirwa is a Fisheries Management Expert and currently a Senior Lecturer in Limnology and Fisheries Management at the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Mzuzu University. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Aquaculture and Fisheries Science from Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (Malawi, 2020), a Master of Science in Aquaculture with distinction from the University of Ghent (Belgium, 2003), and a Bachelor of Science in Education from the University of Malawi (1992). He has received numerous academic scholarships, research grants, and awards including the Flemish Inter-University Council (VLIR) Award (2001), the Graduate Teaching Assistantship (GTA) Award (2016), the EU Microfinance Project Award for training fish farmers (2007), and a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council grant for a project on Mbenji fisheries (Co-I, AHRC grant no. AH/W009099/1, 2021). He teaches Limnology and Oceanography, Fisheries Management, Fishing Gear Technology, and the Blue Economy at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels within the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Science and in other departments at Mzuzu University. He also supervises research for undergraduate, MSc, and PhD students.