Teams


Kimberly King

Kimberly King

Co-Founder & Executive Director - International

Kimberly King is CoFounder and Chief Executive Officer of One Island Institute. An internationally recognized social entrepreneur, Kimberly is a strategy consultant and global change agent in the diverse fields of sustainability and innovation ecosystems; multi-sector partnerships and civic engagement; CSR strategies and regenerative communities, financial services and impact investing, and the empowerment of women &   Read more »

Anneloes Smitsman

Anneloes Smitsman

Co-Founder & Director - Indian Ocean Region

Anneloes is co-founder and Director of One Island Institute for the Indian Ocean Region.  She is also the founding Director of ELIA – Ecological Living In Action, where she is responsible for the ELIA Schooling for Sustainability Program.  Anneloes completed a Masters degree in Law and Political Science (Leiden University, the Netherlands), and two years   Read more »

Shelby Emilien

Shelby Emilien

Project Assistant and Intern

Shelby Emilien was born on the Island of Mauritius. Throughout her education, she demonstrated strong interest in arts, literature and languages, being several times a price winner in those subjects at school. Extremely curious and passionate about her surrounding world, she took BSc (Honours) in Political Science with specialisation in International Relations (2009-2012) at the   Read more »

Natacha Barello (Moses)

Natacha Barello (Moses)

Waves of Change Team

Natacha Barello was born and grew up in Mauritius on the East coast, amongst sugar cane fields and great wide spaces. After a strict schooling at the Loreto Convent of Curepipe, she moved to England where she graduated at Ealing University of a Higher National Diploma in Leisure Studies. From there, Paris seem to close   Read more »

Maja Zidov

Maja Zidov

Community Liaison

Maja Zidov was born in Serbia, grew up in New Zealand, and currently lives in Mauritius. Her education, life and work experience thus far has provided her with a multidisciplinary, systems thinking and integrated design theory, and skills in event organisation, team management, research, communication and networking. She holds BPlan and MSc in Strategic Leadership   Read more »

Soundara Vellan Sornum

Soundara Vellan Sornum

Resource Person & Youth Activator

Soundara Vellan Sornum was born and grew up in Mauritius and since secondary school he had always the wish of saving the environment whereby he organized as school prefect, debate contests whereby the main themes were mainly on socio economical and environmental aspect of Mauritius. In 2012, he graduated at the University of Mauritius of   Read more »

Telma Gomes

Telma Gomes

Advisory Board

Telma is originally from Brazil and moved to Sweden to do a masters program in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability. Her professional background relies on twenty years working in large transnational companies in Supply Chain and CSR areas. After that, she was invited to be the Secretariat of Institutional Relations in the municipality of Jaguariúna, Brazil,   Read more »