Dana Ahmed is a Law of the Sea researcher, Ocean Rights educator, and accessibility advocate working at the intersection of law and ocean justice. With a foundation in common law, her work rethinks ocean governance through decolonial legal perspectives and challenges how legal and scientific knowledge about the ocean is produced.
She is a Common Law with Politics graduate from the University of Glasgow, a National Geographic Young Explorer, and the founder of EcoSpectrum, which advances accessible ocean literacy for autistic youth, and the Asfour Initiative, which centres local and Bedouin ocean stewardship through art, epistemic resistance, and ocean literacy.
Dana’s current research explores the legal personhood of the Red Sea’s coral reefs, bridging Rights of Nature and Ocean Rights frameworks with customary Bedouin law and Abrahamic environmental jurisprudence. This work is grounded in a coral refuge in Sinai, co-created with local Bedouin leaders, supporting both reef protection and community-led livelihoods.
