One Planet Port is an independent Dutch NGO (ANBI), based in Rotterdam. We combine scientific research with policy work and public communications, focused on transforming the Port of Rotterdam into a port that operates within planetary boundaries.
Our work is made possible by the support of a number of leading organisations. We receive funding from the Meliore Foundation, the ClimateWorks Foundation, the European Climate Foundation (ECF) and the Convergence Resilient Delta Initiative (RDi).
We are also part of PortCityFutures – a research consortium of Leiden University, Delft University of Technology, and Erasmus University Rotterdam – and participate in six working groups of the PACT, a COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action network supporting port cities in achieving an inclusive energy transition. We are members of Transport & Environment (T&E) and Seas At Risk, two leading European organisations working on mobility, climate, and ocean health.
Our Supervisory Board advises on an ongoing basis and brings together three members with complementary expertise. Dr. Christiaan De Beukelaer, senior lecturer in Culture and Climate at University of Melbourne, researches shipping decarbonisation and the role maritime transport can play in shifting trade patterns within planetary boundaries. Marjolein van Kooij is a privacy lawyer and entrepreneur who runs an electric ship touring company in Rotterdam, with strong ties to the municipality and the port. Dr. Petra Verdonk is an occupational health psychologist and climate justice advocate whose work sits at the intersection of gender, health, and the climate crisis.
Partners
Lucy Gilliam is an environmental scientist and policy specialist with a BSc in biological sciences and a PhD in microbial ecology. She spent eight years shaping shipping policy at Brussels-based NGOs Transport & Environment (T&E) and Seas At Risk, contributing to EU and United Nations International Maritime Organization (IMO) regulations. Along the way, she became convinced that climate targets cannot be met by fuel substitution alone; systemic change is needed. That conviction brought her to Rotterdam: ports are gatekeepers of the global economy, controlling which fuels, materials and goods flow in and out, which ships can dock, and how operations run. As Europe’s largest, Rotterdam is one of the most powerful levers for transforming global trade. At One Planet Port, she applies that expertise to science-based policy and campaigns focused on shipping, ocean governance and ecosystem-based management, and as co-founder of eXXpedition, she takes that mission literally out to sea.
Tanner Tuttle is an environmental psychologist and Co-Executive Director of One Planet Port. His career began in project management, first in IT, then in television and film in Los Angeles, working for MTV, Paramount Pictures and The Walt Disney Company where he learned to turn complex ideas into executable plans and stories that move people. A volunteer experience with war refugees on the Greek island of Chios changed his direction: it made abstract global problems personal and urgent. He went on to study psychology at Erasmus University and environmental psychology in Groningen, in search of what he calls “high-value societal problems.” Books like Donut Economics and Prosperity Without Growth, combined with meeting Lucy Gilliam through an Erasmus University/TU Delft research project on ammonia as a shipping fuel, brought everything together. At OPP, he leads strategic planning and programme development, bringing his dual background in storytelling and systems thinking to bear on a just, ecologically grounded transition of the port of Rotterdam.
Maëlle Salzinger is a researcher and policy analyst based at TU Delft and One Planet Port. She holds a master’s degree (Cum Laude) from Sciences Po Paris and spent four years as a Policy Analyst and gender focal point at ECDPM, the Centre for Africa-Europe Relations. At OPP, she connects academic networks to transformative advocacy and policy change, driven by the conviction that knowledge must accelerate action toward just, sustainable transitions. OPP’s collaborative and systemic approach, bringing together science, creativity and urgency around Rotterdam and its port is a natural fit for her. A long-time dancer and nature lover, she believes in the power of embodied experience to shift mindsets and foster learning.
Alexander Los is a climatologist and urban environmental scientist at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he specialises in how communities – particularly the most vulnerable – are exposed to air pollution and climate-related heat extremes. The Port of Rotterdam sits squarely within his field of research. That proximity makes his collaboration with One Planet Port more than a natural fit: he translates scientific insights directly into implementable approaches for a port that must learn to operate within planetary boundaries. His work on the energy transition and the systemic reduction of greenhouse gas emissions – guided by the principle of sufficiency – gives OPP the scientific grounding to not just analyse what needs to change, but how.
Maria Farooq is project support officer at One Planet Port. She holds a master’s degree in Environmental Biosciences in a Changing Climate from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, and began her career as an intern with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Pakistan before working with several international NGOs, including Greenpeace International. At OPP, she channels that experience into turning complex content and science into clear, accessible communication for OPP’s communities, alongside taking care of the organisation’s visual identity and developing newsletters that speak to a range of audiences.
Mirjam van Tiel is an organisational developer and operations manager for social impact. She holds graduate degrees in sociology and behavioural economics, as well as an MBA. Driven by a commitment to working for the public good has brought her to the Department of Education in New York, and in the Netherlands to De Argumentenfabriek, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, and ProDemos – house for democracy and the rule of law. She also serves, and has served, as a volunteer board member for organisations focused on emancipation and culture. At One Planet Port, she takes care of many of the processes related to governance and finance, so that its directors, other team members and partners can work with accurate, up-to-date information.
James Brandon is a volunteer at One Planet Port with a background in environmental science. After completing a bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences, he spent several years working as an Environmental Scientist in the UK, taking measurements and reporting on the indoor built environment following peril events such as fires, floods, and biological and chemical contaminations. He is currently a student at Erasmus University, pursuing a master’s degree in Urban Management & Development with a focus on how urban environments can become more materially sustainable and operate within the nine planetary boundaries. This brought him to OPP, where he aims to use his background to better understand, quantify and explain the visible and invisible impacts of the port on the surrounding environment and local residents.
Maeve Larco holds a BA in Public Policy with a minor in Biology from the University of Michigan, and is currently studying Development Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, focusing on Governance and Sustainability. Her passion for addressing the climate crisis brought her to One Planet Port, whose comprehensive, intersectional approach to environmental degradation inspired her to think more systemically about how to catalyse tangible change. With experience in both state and federal legislatures in the United States, she brings an understanding of cross-societal relations to her work at OPP, where she supports projects, assists with administrative tasks and conducts research. Working alongside others committed to protecting the earth systems gives her hope for the future.
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