Through her multidisciplinary background in science and engineering, Talia is a passionate coastal scientist with a doctorate in coastal engineering, and has pursued a career helping engineering, consultancies and intergovernmental organisations to reduce costs, time and improve safety on their projects through the use of Geo-data advice. She currently manages Strategic Sales and Marketing for the Middle East and India region at Fugro, working closely with clients to build Partnerships, and develop and deliver Strategic Initiatives. She is a keen enthusiast of technology transfer, and finding improved solutions to optimise project operations, safety and cultivating information sharing and decision making. Talia is proud to work in the Middle East supporting the drive of the energy transition and many new exciting sustainability and climate related goals and hopes to improve the awareness of how important and valuable Geo-data is to supporting these initiatives.