Paloma Colmenarejo

Focus 

Paloma specialises in sustainable seafood products and their availability to consumers in large supermarkets in Spain. She works with companies in the seafood supply chain to make responsibility and sustainability part of the company's strategic planning. She participated in the creation of the Plataforma por la Sostenibilidad Pesquera (Platform for Sustainable Fisheries), a joint and collaborative workspace between different companies in the Spanish seafood supply chain, such as distributors, business associations and suppliers, who share the vision of being a global benchmark in the marketing of sustainable seafood products. ClientEarth holds the position of Secretariat of this Platform.

Paloma also collaborates with other environmental NGOs working together to support responsible and sustainable fishing, especially of the most important species for the Spanish market.

Experience

Before joining ClientEarth, Paloma worked to promote healthy oceans with fishers, retailers, consumers and local communities, administrations, scientists and NGOs. She was the Team Project Coordinator for the design and the creation of a co-managed Marine Protected Areas in Galicia, with Lonxanet Foundation. Also, she worked in Greenpeace, as part of the Seafood Markets campaign, pushing Spanish businesses to have a sustainable seafood purchasing policy. She has also witnessed at sea and has been able to witness first-hand the need for transparency and traceability in this field. In recent years, she launched an online sales company of 100% Galician and artisanal seafood company, whose objective was to provide customers with fully traceable and sustainable seafood.

Education and Training

Paloma finished the programme Management in Non-Governmental Organizations in ESADE Business & Law School, Madrid.

Paloma is a Technical Agricultural Engineer, specialising in Horticulture and Gardening, from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

At ClientEarth I will keep working for a better world, where big and small boats fish in a sustainable way, retailers sell sustainable seafood and consumers contribute to a better world through their buying decisions.