Advisory for development banks, funds, governments and ocean-linked organisations at the point where ambition has to become something a treasury, board or fisheries directorate can execute and keep executing after the political cycle turns.
National and regional ocean strategy, blue finance and pipeline development, fisheries governance, monitoring and traceability, and programme and portfolio design. The work joins governance, capital, technology and operations into one system rather than treating them as separate workstreams.
Senior Advisor, Healthy Oceans Programme, Asian Development Bank.
Regional ocean strategy, portfolio coherence and programme design across fisheries, marine protected areas, coastal adaptation and blue economy investment.
Chief Technical Advisor, COAST Facility, UK FCDO Blue Planet Fund.
Technical leadership across grant-making and advisory workstreams in Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia and Mozambique, including blue finance, bankable-pipeline development and national blue economy roadmap support.
Board and institutional advisory.
Governance reform and decision support for ocean institutions under sustained strain, informed by a former board member, Marine Stewardship Council and Blue Ventures (2021 to 2024).
The ocean work also exposes the institutional conditions that make strategy hold or fail. For boards, chief executives, funds and membership bodies, the work diagnoses where an operating model stopped matching its conditions, designs the change that can be authorised, and supports the transition while the new structure takes hold.
Diagnosis. A structured assessment of the gap between the model and the conditions it now faces, producing a written account of the specific gaps, their cost and the sequence for addressing them.
Redesign. Target operating model work covering decision rights, structure, capability and governance, with trade-offs stated clearly enough for a board to authorise.
Execution support. Advisory through the period when the previous model is being dismantled and the new one is not yet carrying load.
The method is set out in The Regenerate Leap.
Engagements run through Blue-Green Advisors Ltd, the oceans-only advisory firm founded in 2017, from short technical advisory through to multi-year facility roles. Procurement through development-finance and government frameworks is familiar ground.