Mike Rowe
Biography
Mike Rowe is Director for Marine and Fisheries in Defra, a role which sits at the heart of the Government’s vision of achieving clean, healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse ocean and seas.
Mike has been in the department for over 20 years and took up this posting on 1 February 2021. His previous role was Director for EU and International Trade in Defra where he was responsible for overseeing and coordinating all of Defra’s interests in the Trade and Co-operation Agreement negotiations with the EU. He also led the strand of those negotiations related to a new Fisheries Framework Agreement on behalf of the UK.