Athena Trakadas is a maritime archaeologist focusing on marine resource exploitation and coastal and riverine landscapes, as well as natural-cultural heritage management. Athena directs long-term research projects in Morocco, and has led and conducted archaeological fieldwork in Montenegro, Italy, Iran, Abu Dhabi, Egypt, Türkiye, Greece, Germany and Denmark. She is Senior Researcher at the Viking Ship Museum (Denmark), Visiting Associate Professor in Classical Archaeology, University of Copenhagen, and Editor of the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. She co-founded and co-chairs the UN-partner Ocean Decade Heritage Network NGO. She serves on the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology’s Executive Board, and the Advisory Boards of the Koç University Mustafa V. Koç Maritime Archaeology Research Center (Türkiye) and Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology, University of California, San Diego (USA). She is an Expert Consultant to the UNESCO 2001 Convention on the Protection on the Underwater Cultural Heritage and its Scientific and Technical Advisory Board.