Ms. Satapornvanit has expertise in sustainable and ethical aquaculture and fisheries, gender equality and social inclusion, capacity development and training, project management, participatory field research, and gender-responsive value chain analysis. Aside from her PM role with SUFIA, she is also the Organizational Development Specialist and GESI Specialist. She is a member of the Asian Fisheries Society and its Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries Section, the Social and Gender Steering Committee of the Asian Seafood Improvement Collaborative (ASIC), and the International Organisation for Women in the Seafood Industry. She has worked as a Technical Trainer for US Peace Corps Fisheries Volunteers, Researcher in sustainable aquaculture, and Gender Specialist with USAID fisheries and aquaculture projects in Asia and the Pacific.

Andrew became involved with fishery certification in 1998 at the establishment of the MSC. He was manager of a CAB, Moody Marine, from 1999 to 2011 and since then has worked as an auditor or consultant to fisheries of all sizes. He was involved with the establishment of the RFS (now RFVS) programme and the FISH Crew programme. He is now a Director of an organisation looking to establish a market-based programme specific to Small-Scale Fisheries.

Gert is the Aquaculture and Fisheries Specialist at Woolworths, a premium quality retailer in South Africa. He provides strategic insights and technical support to the various Woolworths seafood departments and oversees Woolworths’ Fishing for the Future seafood sustainability programme. He works closely with Woolworths’ international and local seafood supply chains to deliver improved efficiencies and implement best management practices.

Gert has more than 20 years’ experience in the seafood industry and holds a Master’s degree in Livestock Industry Management: Aquaculture. He previously worked for Stellenbosch University, co-founded an abalone ranching company and has in the past also consulted to government institutions, non-government organisations and private companies.

Martin Purves is a fisheries management and engagement specialist with over 20 years of field, government, consultancy, market and non-profit sector experience. He has been leading the work of the International Pole and Line Foundation (IPNLF) as Managing Director since 2016.

Martin started his career as a fisheries observer on fishing vessels, later also joining scientific cruises as a cruise leader, spending more than 3 years of his life on fishing vessels of all sizes in the Southern, Indian, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. He gained further experience by working as a resource manager at the South African fisheries department where he represented his country at RFMO meetings. In between his stint as a government scientist and fisheries manager, and before establishing and leading the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) Southern Africa Programme for seven years, he worked as a fisheries consultant for MRAG and Capfish. The toughest job he ever did was to work as a fisherman in the Southern Ocean.

Having gained experience in credit financial analysis and mergers and acquisitions in various banking institutions, Sandrine Boucher joined Proparco in 1992, first as Project Manager and then as Head of the Infrastructure Division. The AFD subsidiary is dedicated to financing and supporting private companies committed to sustainable development. In 2000, she was seconded as Senior Advisor to the Executive Director for France of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.

This HEC graduate returned to AFD in 2003 as Deputy Director of the West Africa Department. In 2005, she became Deputy Director of sector-wide policies and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. During this period, she participated in the launch of the multilateral Unitaid initiative. This driver of health innovation, hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO), invests in finding new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

In 2007 Sandrine Boucher was seconded to the Asian Development Bank before taking over management of the AFD’s Beijing office in 2010. In 2014, she became Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Proparco, in charge of the General Secretariat, before being appointed Chief Risk Officer for AFD Group in spring 2016. She has been Director of the Innovation Unit since September 2018.

Stéphanie Mouen joined AFD after gaining ten years’ experience of structured finance with Société Générale. For the last eight years her work has focused mainly on the energy sector in Africa – firstly within Proparco, then within AFD.