Nicole is a creative and collaborative climate, energy and nature strategy and policy advisor with a proven track record delivering innovative multi-stakeholder initiatives. With over 20 years’ experience in the Pacific, Nicole is dedicated to building strong relationships with stakeholders and adopts a pragmatic approach to ensure that strategy and implementation plans are suitable for developing country contexts.
Nicole has provided consulting services to the governments of New Zealand, Australia, Cook Islands, and Marshall Islands and has advised on Pacific regional strategies for the World Bank, MFAT, and the United Nations. Nicole focuses on collaborating with key decision-makers to ensure that options, choices, and trade-offs are well understood, supporting coordinated policies and investments. Nicole has degrees in engineering, public policy, and environmental economics.
A marine scientist by training with 20 years’ experience in projects-programme management in the fields of marine coastal habitat-species conservation and environment sustainability, not for profit fundraising targeting community resilience building initiatives and climate change adaptation-disaster risk reduction planning and practice. As a practitioner with multidisciplinary skillset and experiential knowledge deduced from a Pacific perspective through the provision of technical support and coordination; peer learning and capacity building; applied research in aspects of tropical island biodiversity and conservation, community-based fisheries, livelihoods and ecosystem-based management approaches; communications and knowledge management of project impact results; climate change advocacy, and policy advice. This brings with it an established Pacific network that furthered meaningful connections to other sector work in agriculture, community based inshore fisheries, coastal protection and water resources management. Experience working in culturally diverse settings at an international (WWF Pacific, National Geographic Pristine Seas), regional (SPREP, FAO), national (Rotary Pacific Water Foundation/ WWF) as well as with community-based organisation (LäjeRotuma Initiative) and engaging with other indigenous groups.