In her capacity as the Policy Officer for Sustainable and Prosperous Region at the Council of the Baltic Sea States Secretariat, Ignė Stalmokaite is advising and supporting the coordination of CBSS’s activities in the field of sustainable maritime economy and climate change. She is actively engaged in supporting the CBSS Expert Group on Sustainable Maritime Economy (EGSME) – a platform where national experts from CBSS Member State line ministries dealing with maritime economy and the EU Commission focus on issues concerning the Baltic Sea Region’s maritime economy, growth potentials, and marine ecosystem protection. Ignė Stalmokaitė holds a PhD degree in Environmental Science from Södertörn University in Sweden and has a decade of international hands-on research, project management and collaboration experience in the field of energy transitions, maritime transport, sustainability, and innovation.