Anneliese is an early-career researcher from Southern Cross University, working as a gender equity and social inclusion advisor with Bees for Sustainable Livelihoods (B4SL). B4SL is an NGO supported by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) working throughout the Pacific region to improve the productivity, sustainability, and technical capacity of honeybee value chains in Papua New Guinea and Fiji.

She is currently conducting her PhD research on approaches to support the socio-economic empowerment of women beekeepers in the Pacific, targeting both the informal and formal structures which limit women’s capacity to benefit from their participation in beekeeping and agricultural development.