Annabelle “Abbie” Trinidad is the Senior Technical Advisor for BIOFIN handling the Philippines, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, India, Indonesia, Egypt, and the Maldives. She supports countries in the implementation of the BIOFIN methodology and design and roll-out of finance solutions. She has more than two decades of work experience in environmental economics, sustainable financing, and policy and institutional analysis, mainly in the fisheries and coastal sectors. Abbie has written a number of papers on fisheries policy and economics, including peer-reviewed materials, and co-authored a book entitled "Values of Philippine Coastal Resources: Why Protection and Management are Critical". She has worked with major donor agencies Abbie has an undergraduate degree in Statistics and a masteral degree in Applied Business Economics.