Angela Williamson is the CEO of the Blue Economy CRC.

Angela is a senior leader in ocean and fisheries policy, ocean-related international relations and diplomacy, sustainable seafood production, offshore innovation, ESG and investor relations, and contemporary marine spatial planning.

She brings over two decades of experience working at the forefront of sustainable oceans governance, planning and policy across the government, political offices, the private sector, and the research community.

Angela is the co-designer of the nationally crucial ‘futures of seafood’ study, an industry driver of the International Freight Assistance Mechanism that supported the seafood industry cope with COVID challenges, inaugural leader of Australia’s support for the Coral Triangle Initiative and shepherded through the formal constitutional recognition of Tasmania Aboriginal peoples in the Tasmanian Constitution.

Her goal is to grow the ocean economy by elevating the role of sustainable food systems and integrated oceans governance.