The team

Tania Augusto

GI WACAF Industry Chair
Senior Advisor for ExxonMobil Angola

Andrew Tucker

GI WACAF Industry Vice-Chair
Oil Spill Manager for bp

Joel Conwell

GI WACAF Industry Vice-Chair
Senior Global Crisis Advisor for Chevron

Patricia Charlebois

Senior Deputy Director
Subdivision for Ocean Policy and Pollution Response / Marine Environment Division

Chiara Della Mea

Head of Pollution Preparedness and Response Section
Subdivision for Ocean Policy and Pollution Response / Marine Environment Division

Anaïs Guillou

GI WACAF Project Manager
IPIECA, The global oil and gas industry association for advancing environmental and social performance

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Anaïs Guillou is the GI WACAF Project Manager since May 2022. She is responsible for the definition and implementation of the GI WACAF action plan, and ensures the Project reaches its strategic objectives. Trained as an oceanographer, Anaïs joined a French engineering and environmental consulting firm in 2006. As manager of the marine environment team, she carried out and supervised numerous environmental monitoring studies at sea on behalf of oil and gas companies, particularly in the Gulf of Guinea. Furthermore, in the framework of environmental impact studies and oil spill contingency plans, she has also participated in carrying out modeling studies of discharges in marine environment (oil spills, produced water, drilling cuttings, chemicals, etc.) and of the response associated. More recently as Project Manager for the Technical Direction, she managed a large portfolio of activities dedicated to the oil and gas sector in France and internationally.

Marine Laigle

GI WACAF Project Coordinator
International Maritime Organization, Marine Environment Division

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Marine Laigle is the new coordinator of the GI-WACAF Project since February 2025. She is involved in the implementation of the project's action plan and facilitates exchanges between the different actors involved in the Project and supports the preparation and participation in the activities of the project action plan. Graduate of the Institute for the Study of Economic and Social Development (IEDES) in Local Development and Socio-Ecological Transformations, she specialized in international nature conservation programmes.

In 2023, she joined the Regional Partnership for Coastal and Marine Conservation (PRCM), based in Dakar, as Project Capitalisation and Incubation Coordinator. For two years, she was involved in RESILAO, a call for projects for sustainable, resilient coastal ecosystems and a social and inclusive blue economy in West Africa.