Ms. Sarah Louisa Marije Maria VANDEN EEDE
Oceans & Fisheries Policy Officer
Avenue du Mont-Blanc 27
CH-1196 Gland
Switzerland
Marine Ecology
Fisheries
Aquaculture
Marine and Coastal Engineering
Policy
Law
Economics
Management
At WWF-Belgium (since October 2015), I am working on the sustainability of fisheries, on reducing the impact of our consumption on the fish stocks and the oceans worldwide and on a better protection of the marine biodiversity through influencing national, regional and international policy, working out and leading awareness campaigns and engaging in corporate partnerships.
At IMDC (September 2013-September 2015), I gained expertise in writing environmental impact assessments (EIA) for sand extraction (Blighbank), offshore wind farms (Mermaid and NW2) and the Belgian Offshore Grid (Elia Asset NV). I am also involved in the second progress report for the monitoring program “flexible deposit under the third expansion of the Scheldt”. Internationally, I am closely involved in the environmental and social impact analysis of a large project off the coast of Montevideo in Uruguay (Gas Sayago). Thanks to my academic background, I remain closely involved in all sorts of projects relating to the Belgian coast and coastal defense.