BIO
Sheila JJ Heymans is Executive Director of the European Marine Board – the leading European marine science policy think tank - and Professor in Ecosystem Modelling at the University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland. She has 30 years’ experience in research on the environmental impacts of ecosystem change and has published >90 peer-reviewed publications. Sheila is Co-Chair of the EOOS Steering Group and on the External Advisory Board for various European projects including EuroFleetsPlus and MarinePlan and NECCTON. She is the editor of EMB Policy documents (http://www.marineboard.eu/publications) and her publications are here http://tinyurl.com/zf8wrcb