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The ProSea team consists of a six person Foundation Board, ProSea personnel Erik Bogaard, Edo Donkers and Marieke Verweij, administrative assistent Pauli Moolhuijsen and freelance course leaders Eelco Leemans, Bopp van Dessel and Merijn Hougee. Foundation Board The Board consists of persons that have significant experience in sectors related to ProSea's work: sea, education and sustainable business. The boardmembers do not represent an organisation.
Erik Bogaard Director and course leader Erik Bogaard is an educator and an environmental scientist. He began working for Ecomare (centre for wadden and North Sea), a short time after he graduated with a degree in environmental science. At Ecomare he started in the educational department as a guide for schools and tourists. Later he became project manager and then head of the educational department. In the educational department he developed and conducted excursions, workshops and programs for a wide range of target groups, developed, wrote and managed projects, and managed personnel. While at Ecomare, Erik was involved in the development of the first marine awareness course in 1999 and he was a ProSea board member from 2001 to 2004. He has been employed by ProSea since February 2005, first as project manager and since 2006 as director. erik@prosea.info or prosea01@xs4all.nl
Edo Donkers Project manager and course leader
Marieke Verweij Project manager and course leader Pauli Moolhuijsen Administrative assistant
Eelco Leemans Course leader Eelco Leemans graduated in 1988 from the nautical college in Enkhuizen and has worked as an officer and skipper on various ships worldwide. During a tour of Prince William Sound two years after the Exxon Valdez accident he decided to alter the course of his professional career. He obtained a degree in environmental science in 1998 and has worked for NGO’s ever since. In 2001 he began working for the North Sea Foundation on the environmental problems of shipping and on solutions such as the ‘Clean Ship Concept.’ Eelco is one of the initiators of the original marine environmental awareness course and has given lectures on the environmental problems of shipping. Since 2005 Eelco has been working for ProSea as a course leader. eelco@prosea.info
Bopp van Dessel Course leader Bopp van Dessel graduated with a degree in marine biology and spent a number of years in marine scientific research at NIOZ, Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research, and Alterra. In 1989 he became an environmental advisor with Shell-International where he worked 3 years in the Netherlands and 2.5 years in Nigeria. While working for Shell he gained valuable experience with environmental, stakeholder and sustainability issues and conducting workshops. After leaving Shell-International he continued to work with sustainability issues and provide training workshops with two environmental consultancy firms, Royal Haskoning and Dames & Moore/URS. In June 2002 Bopp started his own consultancy business, Bopp Solutions. Bopp is involved with ProSea’s international projects and courses.
Merijn Hougee Course leader
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Edo Donkers has worked in the maritime sector since 1998. He became interested in marine environmental issues in 1995 when he did an internship at the Dutch Water Ministry about marine litter in the North Sea. After some short-term work for two consulting firms he joined the Dutch environmental NGO ‘North Sea Foundation’ in 1998. In 2002, after four years of project work and advocating sustainable use of the North Sea, he moved to a position at the Port of Rotterdam. In 2006, Edo joined the ProSea Foundation to use and strengthen his expertise on shipping and environment in marine awareness courses. Because of his experience in both the NGO and commercial maritime sector, Edo has a broad view on environmental shipping issues.
Pauli Moolhuijsen has worked at the North Sea Foundation secretariat since January 2001. At the same time she began in the secretariat, ProSea started renting office space from the North Sea Foundation and hired the North Sea Foundation secretariat to do its administration. In 2007 Pauli started assisting ProSea with the organization of sustainability courses in the Netherlands.
Merijn Hougee received his Bachlors in River Delta Management from Larenstein College in 2005. He worked for one year in water management at RPS Consulting. Since 2007 he is working at the North Sea Foundation on maritime and fishing issues. He is especially interested in a market oriented approach for creating sustainability in the maritime sector. In 2007 he also began working for ProSea as a course leader. In his free time he is studying for a Masters in Management of Marine Ecosystems at the University of Wageningen.