Our Team
Dr. Lida Pet Soede
Lida is a senior strategic conservation and fisheries management professional with 30 years of practical, policy, technical and management expertise. She is a leader in developing new programs, initiating multi-partner platforms and a strong and effective motivator for the related required organizational change.
She has extensive experience in developing effective collaborative networks, capable motivated global teams and strategic partnerships (government, private sector, academia, and NGOs). She also boosts a proven track record in achieving conservation and natural resource management agendas and support fisheries improvement programs. She is known to her colleagues as a passionate high achiever and strong team builder. She holds graduate degrees (BSc., MSc., and a PhD) in Tropical Fisheries Biology and Management all from Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands. Major disciplines were fisheries biology and -management, socio-economics of developing countries, and fish culture. She is an avid diver with tropical marine and coastal habitat survey expertise. She conducted her PhD research in Indonesia, supervised more than 100 students over the years, many of which have jobs in conservation and fisheries management and she co-authored more than 40 papers and publications.
Lida’s three decades of fisheries/marine resource work benefits from
her key skills on:
Tropical fisheries management, marine biodiversity conservation, aquaculture, fisheries biology, small-scale fisheries, tuna fisheries, snapper fisheries, policy review, socio-economics of developing countries, marine tourism, collaborative fisheries governance and management.
Project and strategy design, project management, project review and evaluation, professional development coaching and team management, development of effective collaborative networks, capable motivated team and strategic partnerships (government, private sector, academia, and NGOs).