Mariska J. M. Bottema, Ph.D. Email and Phone Number

1. Program leadership: Developing and maintaining strategy for Blue Food pillar; overseeing project managers; developing and maintaining working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including potential donors.2. Project management and research: Managing team of staff and consultants in private-sector led project on seafood loss and waste in Namibian fisheries; leading research; leading workshops; reporting to donors; managing relations with partners, fundraising. Funder: UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs.3. Visibility: Coordinate the provision of content on blue food topics to further the blue food narrative in international sustainability fora and other relevant events.Focal areas: Namibia and Ghana | Focal sectors: aquaculture and fisheries.

1. Program leadership: Developing and maintaining strategy for Blue Food pillar; overseeing project managers; developing and maintaining working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including potential donors.2. Project management and research: Managing team of staff and consultants in private-sector led project on seafood loss and waste in Namibian fisheries; leading research; leading workshops; reporting to donors; managing relations with partners, fundraising. Funder: UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs.3. Visibility: Coordinate the provision of content on blue food topics to further the blue food narrative in international sustainability fora and other relevant events.Focal areas: Namibia and Ghana | Focal sectors: aquaculture and fisheries.

1. Price, market and trade analyses of global warm water shrimp sector. 2. Project consultancy: applied research in seafood markets, trade, policy and sustainability. Clients: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, aqua-feed companies, RAS companies, processors, exporters.3. Business development: developing tenders for private sector clients.4. Strategic development: developing Seafood TIP’s shrimp strategy.Focal areas: Indonesia, Vietnam, India and Ecuador.

1. Research into aquaculture governance, value chains and certification in Thailand, Vietnam and China: developing proposals; planning and executing field work; analyzing data; publishing articles.2. Project management: organizing workshops; reporting to donors; managing relations with partners in SUPERSEAS project, training and supervising research assistants.3. Communications: presenting to practitioners, FAO, industry, donors and academics; preparing website content; writing blogs.4. Departmental support: active in committees; supervising classes; organizing information exchange sessions.Focal areas: Thailand, Vietnam and China.

1. Project consultancy: applied research and implementing projects in the field of marine policy, coastal management, urban climate change adaptation and stakeholder management. Clients: DG MARE and Horizon 2020 (European Commission); Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment, Rijkswaterstaat Maaswerken and ProRail (Netherlands); Wuhan Land Use and Urban Spatial Planning Research Centre (China).2. Business development: developing tenders in teams. Aspired clients: World Bank, European Commission, Netherlands Enterprise Agency.Focal area: Europe.

1. Strategic development: strategy-building, project development and securing funding for Dutch Caribbean Program.2. Project management: managing and monitoring six coastal conservation (thematic areas: marine protected areas, coral, mangroves, sea turtles, and sharks) and small-scale fisheries programs, supervision of local consultants; reporting to donors. 3. Stakeholder engagement: leading stakeholder engagement processes for strategy development and in lobby trajectories; managing relations with strategic partners and corporate donors.4. Communications: presenting to donors and partners, preparing content for campaigns.Focal areas: Dutch Caribbean, Belize, Cuba, Mexico, and the Guianas.

1. Strategic development: strategy-building, project development and securing funding for projects Green Island Economy Bonaire and Sustainable Tourism.2. Project management: managing and monitoring 3 coastal conservation projects in Caribbean region; supervision of local consultants.3. Stakeholder engagement: leading stakeholder engagement processes for strategy development; managing relations with strategic partners and corporate donors.4. Marine protected areas development: preparing content and practical support to global WWF program Marine Protected Area Action Agenda.Focal areas: Dutch Caribbean, Belize, Cuba, Mexico, and the Guianas.

Research into an integrated approach for transition to a sustainable economy on Bonaire. Collaboration with stakeholders from energy, water, agriculture, nature, tourism, cultural, banking, and private sector. Recommendations resulted in project development.

1. Applied research into biodiversity monitoring in the Dutch Caribbean and compliance to requirements in Convention on Biological Diversity and EU regulations.2. Development of a biodiversity/fisheries monitoring plan for Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba. 3. Content and practical support in the development of a management plan for the Dutch Caribbean EEZ.Focal area: Dutch Caribbean.

Dutch to English translation of websites, marketing plans, thesises; part time

Socio-economic research for Master thesis: studying the governance of two entrepreneurial marine protected areas in Bali and Lombok. Two months on-site, semi-structured interviews with 33 stakeholders in two case studies and 3 NGOs.

1. Guest Relations: complaint handling, reception, concierge2. All-round Sales and Marketing: general assistance to Director of Sales, designing in-house promotions for Spa, Recreation and Food departments, organizing hotel events, competitor analysis of the spa industry in Bali3. Finance: performance analysis for Resident Manager