GSSI - Key Persons
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- Chief CSR Officer, Grupo Nueva Pescanova
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- Branding & Communications Manager
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- Member of the Steering Board
- Vice President of Quality Assurance, Sustainability, and Government Affairs, High Liner Foods Inc
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- Member of the Steering Board
- Leader Fisheries and Environment Research Group, Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries Thünen Institute
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- Member of the Steering Board
- Deputy Director of the Policy and Resources Division in the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, FAO
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- Member of the Steering Board
- Co - Chair ) Assistant Professor of Sustainable and Ethical Seafood, Heriot - Watt University
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- Member of the Steering Board
- Senior Vice President, Food & Markets Executive Director Markets Institute, World Wildlife Fund
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- Member of the Steering Board
- Director, Ethic Ocean
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- Member of the Steering Board
- Director of Biodiversity and Product Sustainability, Ahold Delhaize
Within Ahold Delhaize, Liz leads the development of the group's nature approach, including work on seafood. Liz started her career working in seafood, working first in electronic monitoring before joining Australia's Federal Government, where she worked on fisheries policy for both domestic and international fisheries. Prior to joining Ahold Delhaize, Liz worked in EY's climate change and sustainability team, where she advised clients on nature and biodiversity and managing environmental and social impacts across their value chains.
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- Director of Partnerships, Aqua - Spark
Flavio has spent more than two decades working in responsible aquaculture globally for non-profit, intergovernmental, and for-profit organizations. As Aqua-Spark's Director of Partnerships, he is responsible for driving the development and execution of a robust partner ecosystem that aligns all stakeholders behind a core vision, while supporting Aqua-Spark's portfolio, network, and goals. Prior to joining Aqua-Spark, Flavio worked for IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative, overseeing their Aquaculture Program. He was also IDH Vietnam Country Director, establishing groundbreaking public-private partnerships in coffee, tea, and apparel. He founded and ran the sustainability arm of the Vietnam association of farmers and fishers (VINAFIS). He has worked as an expert for over 20 international organizations such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Flavio holds an M.Sc. in Aquaculture from the University of Stirling and a Ph.D. in Epidemiology, the study of diseases in populations, from the University of Liverpool.
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- Member of the Steering Board
- General Counsel, Brim
Friðrik is a lawyer, living in Kopavogur, Iceland. He works as Brim's General Counsel, giving him a broad advisory role within the company. He has worked within fishing management, HR, collective bargaining, labour issues, certification and corporate matters for almost 20 years - most of that time within the fishing industry. Prior to working for Brim, Fridrik worked for Fisheries Iceland for ten years on variety of projects, participating in public committees and other public responsibilities on issues related to fisheries management and business environment of fishing companies.
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- Benchmark Operations Manager
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- Aquaculture and Fisheries Specialist, Woolworths South Africa
Gert oversees Woolworths' Fishing for the Future seafood sustainability programme and works closely with their international and local seafood supply chains to implement best management practices and continuously improve sustainability outcomes, including taking climate change action. Gert holds a master's degree in Livestock Industry Management: Aquaculture from Stellenbosch University. He has more than 20 years' experience in the seafood sector, co-founded an abalone ranching company and has in the past consulted to government institutions, non-government organisations and private companies, mainly in Africa.
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- Member of the Steering Board
- Executive Director, China Blue Sustainability
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- Vice President Product Integrity, Ahold Delhaize
Hugo Byrnes joined Ahold in 2006 and was subsequently appointed to the position of Vice President Product Integrity. He is responsible for Ahold Delhaize's food and non-food product policies, which cover product safety and responsible products. This includes social compliance, animal welfare and environmental issues. Hugo Byrnes has a Dutch Law degree from the State University Leiden, the Netherlands. He is a food lawyer whose career has focused on the food business and in particular on quality management and standardization.
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- Member of the Steering Board
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- Social Responsibility Division Director, FishWise
Kelley leads social responsibility for FishWise, advising companies and collaborating across the sector to build resilient supply chains that uphold international labor standards. In addition to the GSSI Steering Board, she sits on the Consortium for Social Risks in Seafood, the Seafood Working Group, the FAO Technical Working Group, the MBA Social Sustainability Advisory Group, and advises the Food Marketing Institute's Sustainable Seafood Committee. Prior to FishWise, Kelley served 14 years as Global V.P. of Social and Environmental Impact at Driscoll's. In her free time, she serves on the board of the Resource Conservation District of Santa Cruz County.
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- Member of the Steering Board
- Program Manager Aquaculture at IDH, Sustainable Trade Initiative
Leading impactful initiatives, Lisa collaborates with businesses and civil society to drive sustainable trade in global value chains. Specializing in coalition-building, she focuses on reducing the environmental footprint of (tropical) aquaculture companies and addressing living wage gaps. With a Master's in International Development Studies and dual Bachelor's degrees in International Relations and International Organization, and Religion Studies, Lisa combines academic prowess with practical experience, exemplified by her research on the ASC's Standard for Responsible Shrimp Farming during her tenure at Wageningen University.
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- Member of the Steering Board
- Chief Operating Officer - COO, Fishing Industry Association in Papua New Guinea
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- Aquaculture Programs Manager, BalanceBlue Lab, Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life, New England Aquarium
Matt has extensive experience collaborating with industry, NGOs, and other stakeholders to promote environmentally responsible aquaculture practices throughout the global seafood and marine hydrocolloids industry. Through his work at the BalanceBlue Lab at the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life, he has helped set certification standards for environmentally responsible aquaculture, helped the Aquarium's corporate partners develop environmentally responsible supply chains, and mentored startups with innovative solutions to aquaculture's biggest challenges through the BlueSwell bluetech incubator program. Matt has a degree in Marine Science from Southampton University (UK) and a Master's degree in Aquaculture from Stirling University (UK).
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- Member of the Steering Board
- Senior Fishery Officer in the Fisheries and Aquaculture Division, FAO
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- Chief Sustainability and CSR Officer, Nueva Pescanova Group
Nuno Cosme leads the company's sustainability agenda, driving the transformation of business models and operational strategies to ensure transparency and accountability in ESG reporting. His efforts position Nueva Pescanova as a leader in responsible and sustainable seafood production. Originally trained as a Marine Biologist (PT), Nuno holds a PhD in Sustainability Engineering (DK) and an MSc in Environmental Engineering (DK). He specialises in sustainability assessment of products and processes, with expertise in life cycle assessment, environmental performance metrics, and strategies to reduce environmental footprints while fostering growth and long-term business resilience.
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- Sodexo Group in 2007 As a Quality Manager
Sévrine joined Sodexo Group in 2007 as a Quality Manager to monitor the portfolio of suppliers in France and rapidly started to work closely with the Group Corporate Responsibility Department on sustainability initiatives to improve supply chains social and environmental impacts. Since then, she has contributed to driving and implementing the Sodexo Responsible Sourcing roadmap by ensuring the sourcing of healthy solutions and ingredients, fostering social equity and protecting and restoring the natural ecosystems. She is from the Caribbean and has an engineering degree in food safety and quality applicable to food industry.
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- Member of the Steering Board
- Co - Chair ) Vice President of Fisheries and Sustainability, American Seafoods
- Vice President of Fisheries and Sustainability, American Seafoods
Trent is Vice President of Fisheries and Sustainability for American Seafoods. In this role he focuses on regulatory and legislative actions that affect the company, and the Alaska pollock or Pacific whiting fishery in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. He also coordinates the fishery, social and labor certifications for company as well as sustainability initiatives for the North American catcher processor sector. Prior to working at American Seafoods, Trent was worked as a fisheries biologist for Alaska Department of Fish & Game, managing commercial salmon, crab and groundfish fisheries. In addition, he was as alternate on the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, coordinating the State's policy positions on federal fisheries.