Seagriculture Speaker

About the speaker: 

Dr Maya brings to the company extensive experience as a Seaweed specialist and Marine Biology, throughout Asia, Africa and Europe. She shares a strong passion to work with communities developing the marine in PNG

Dr Maya’s career started dedication to the marine industry in 2002, when she commenced her Bachelor Degree in Marine Science. She joined the Indonesian Seaweed Association (ARLI) as Project Officer then promoted to Executive Director in 2018 and she decided to involve in the association as the Head of Research and Development in 2019 until present. In addition to her active part in association, she was a Project Coordinator in the Green Economy Growth Program, a collaboration project with LTS International under the United Kingdom Climate Change Unit. In 2020, she was assigned as the Manager of SELT Alga Indonesia, a seaweed trading company.

For the past six years, she gains experiences in the following fields, they are hydrocolloid industries and global market for seaweed, seaweed farming activity, marine affairs and fisheries regulations, policies and standard in national and international point of view. Furthermore, she understands well on the export activity of fisheries products and the licences especially related to the standards on Good Aquaculture Practice (GAP), Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and Hazard Analytical Critical Control Point (HACCP). She manages to establish Sanitation Standard Operating Procedure (SSOP) for a company and other related SOPs for the production of fisheries products, particularly for seaweed.

Her educational qualification includes:

• Doctor in Biologie Marine Vannes Université Bretagne Sud France
• Doctor in Coastal Ressource Management Semarang Universitas Diponegoro Indonesia
• Master in Biologie Marine Brest Université de Bretagne Occidentale France
• Master in Coastal Ressource Management Semarang Universitas Diponegoro Indonesia
• Bachelor Degree in Marine Science Marine Semarang Universitas Diponegoro