GSSG
Alma
Román
Øyvind
Ihle
Øyvind Ihle is the CEO of the Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative (GSSI), bringing a wealth of experience from leadership roles across the seafood and marine ingredients industries, with a strong focus on sustainability and innovation. GSSI is on a mission to ensure confidence in the supply and promotion of certified seafood as well as promote improvement efforts in seafood sustainability globally.
A native of Norway, Øyvind has spent the last decade championing health and sustainability within the seafood value chain, contributing to major companies like BASF (Omega-3), DSM/Veramaris (algae-based feed ingredients), and Avramar (bass & bream aquaculture). His recent tenure as a Board member at Zooca, which focuses on zooplankton for feed and nutraceuticals, underscores his commitment to sustainable practices. His work in influencing consumer behaviour earned him a position on the marketing committee of the Seafood Nutrition Partnership’s Eat Seafood America campaign.
Garazi
Rodríguez Valle
Head of Production and Marketing Plans at APROMAR
She holds a degree in Biology from the University of Navarra, a Master’s degree in Environmental Management and Control in Business from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and the Ecoembes Chair, and a Master’s degree in Aquaculture and Fisheries from the University of Cádiz.
Since 2017, she has worked at APROMAR, the Spanish Aquaculture Business Association, which represents 95% of marine and inland aquaculture companies farming fish (turbot, sole, rainbow trout, sea bream, sea bass, etc.) in Spain.
At APROMAR, she is responsible for Production and Marketing Plans (PPyC), the main tool for planning future actions to achieve the objectives of the CMO. These include a strategic communications plan (Aquaculture of Spain), a sustainability report, a collective brand for fish (Crianza Mares y Ríos de España), the Annual Report “Aquaculture in Spain,” training initiatives, international relations, and more.
Since 2024, she has coordinated the APROMAR Innovation Network (REMA), which develops applied innovation projects to address collective sectoral challenges, carrying out between five and eight projects annually on different topics.
Raquel
Arribas
Director of Institutional Relations at Kantar Worldpanel
She is Director of Institutional Relations and Director of Client Services for Kantar Worldpanel. More than 30 years of experience in market analysis and an extensive training as a graduate in Psychology, specialist in Human Resources Management and master in Behavioral Therapy lead her to a deep knowledge of consumer buying behavior.
She is currently responsible for the development of Worldpanel’s business with public agencies. She manages and coordinates the service with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of the Food Panel, for which she has been a supplier since 1997. Develops the design and implementation of the food waste panel both inside and outside the home in 2015, which is carried out to this day.
During his professional career he has been responsible for the management of a broad portfolio of clients and numerous work teams, with exclusive dedication to market research not only in the food sector, but also in many other markets of mass consumption, telecommunications, distribution, fuels, lotteries, etc. As an analyst, in addition to working with public administrations, he has worked for large national and multinational manufacturers and distributors, developing specific studies according to client and market needs.
Elena
Ojea
Oportunius program research professor at CIM-Universidade de Vigo
Elena Ojea is a research professor in the Oportunius program at the CIM-Universidade de Vigo (Spain). She leads the Future Oceans Lab, a team researching adaptation solutions for marine socio-ecological systems. She holds a degree in Environmental Sciences and a PhD in Economics, and has experience as a postdoctoral researcher at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) and as a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Bren School for Environmental Science and Policy (USA).
He has experience in European projects contributing to nature-based solutions to climate change and leads several projects with the Xunta de Galicia. She has published in Nature and other journals with international policy impact, and has participated in reports for FAO and the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy. She is lead author of the latest IPCC Assessment Report on the Oceans Chapter of Working Group II on Impacts and Adaptation, and currently serves on the Scientific Committee of the Blue Food Assessment initiative of the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions. In 2023, he received the National Marine Sustainability Research Award from the Banco Sabadell Foundation.
Rosa
Chapela
Managing Director CETMAR
Rosa Chapela is Director-Manager of the Centro Tecnológico del Mar, she has a PhD in Law from the University of Santiago de Compostela, and a postgraduate degree in Fisheries Economics from the same university. She has been coordinator of the Socioeconomics department of CETMAR for more than 20 years. She began her career as a technical advisor for legal issues for the Fisheries Department of the Xunta de Galicia. Since 2013, she is geographical expert and contact for Spain in the European Network FAMENET, support unit for DGMARE in participatory local development through Fisheries Local Action Groups.
From CETMAR, he has led and participated in numerous European projects on fisheries sustainability, governance, competitiveness and value chains of the fisheries and aquaculture sector; participatory local development; climate change, etc., collaborating with numerous teams from different European countries. She has collaborated with international organizations such as FAO and IUCN, and in international cooperation projects on training of women in fisheries and aquaculture in countries such as Vietnam and Senegal, or in twinning projects in Romania and Bulgaria. She is a member of the CPMR Fisheries Working Group.