J. Miguel Medialdea is the Quality & Environment Manager of Veta la Palma, a large private estate located in SW Spain, currently considered a referent in the application of production methods on sustainable basis. He mainly concentrates his activity of the management of fish-farming quality system and the relationships between production and nature enhancement.

He is a graduate in Biology of the University of Sevilla (1990), where he got a Major in Ecology and worked, as full-time researcher, in the Department of Ecoloy & Plant Biology from 1990 to 1992.

From 1992 to 1994, he got a scholarship from the National Fellowship Program for the Improvement of Researchers Abroad (Spain Ministry of Education and Culture), and joined the Wildlife Ecology Group, Department of Zoology and Marine Biology, University of Dar es Salaam (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), where developed a two-year research on Spatio-Temporal Distribution and Recruitment in the Ungulates: Ecology and Social Behaviour of the Maasai giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) in Mikumi National Park (Tanzania).

After going back to Spain, he joined the Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical College, University of Sevilla, and worked as full-time researcher with a scholarship from the National Plan of R + D, Spain Ministry of Education and Culture, in different projects regarding water management. His activities in that institution lasted from 1995 to 2000.

From 2001 to present time, he is part of Veta la Palma technical staff, where he has developed a strong concern on the application of sustainability principles to different aspects of industry management. He is also perticularly interested in the quantification of natural capital, in terms of services for the ecosystem, that some production models such as Veta la Palma fish-farming one, are able to generate.

Medialdea has a long experience on applied scientific research and management, and has published numerous articles and other collaborations on applied ecology, effect of fauna on the design of natural reservations, water management, and aquaculture as a new outlook on regional sustainability.