Affiliation: World Wide Fund for Nature, Mediterranean Office

Simone Niedermueller is a marine biologist that has been trained at the Universities of Vienna, Lisbon and Queensland. She joined WWF in 2012 working on seafood trade and marine conservation. Before joining WWF Simone worked for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. With more than a decade of experience working on the conservation of endangered marine species, fisheries and seafood trade including working on the implementation of CITES, she currently leads on the work on shark and ray conservation and management for WWF Mediterranean since 2019.