Inez Graduated in marine biology at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and holds a Ph.D. in Natural Sciences from the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She also completed postgraduate programs in Science Journalism and documentary filmmaking. She has worked as a strategic advisor of the Dutch Ministry of Water, founded and ran a dive centre focused on marine biology and nature education, and worked as a science journalist and filmmaker. She is currently employed as a Liberal Arts & Sciences teacher at University College Roosevelt in Middelburg (teaching courses on Climate Change, Marine Biology and Documentary Studies) and acts as a member of the provincial parliament of Zeeland (the Netherlands) for PvdA-Groenlinks (Labour-Green-Left). She has been active as trainer for FMS and FEPS over the past years.