Olivia has a primary degree in Environmental Science from Trinity College Dublin. She has over seventeen years’ of experience in European-funded projects, specifically project management, stakeholder engagement, quality assurance, technical and financial reporting, risk analysis, risk management, and grant procurement. She previously worked at AquaTT and Erinn Innovation where she worked on a portfolio of EC-funded multi-disciplinary projects across funding programmes: Erasmus+ Sector Skills Alliance (MATES), Horizon 2020 (SIMBA, BIOCON-CO2), FP7 (Healthy Futures, Sea For Society), Lifelong Learning Programme (2Fish, INTRANEMMA, Vocational Aqualabs, Aqua-RET 1 & Aqua-RET 2, Pescalex II), Interreg IIIB (Planet Aqua). In her role she carried out strategic identification of exploitable knowledge for external clients such as Bord Iascaigh Mhara, Ireland’s Seafood Development Agency. She has also been the work package leader for several projects, most recently on a large collaborative Erasmus+ project MATES (Maritime Alliance for fostering the European Blue Economy through a Marine Technology Skilling Strategy - 17 partners, eight countries, €4.9m budget, 2018-2022).