Dr. Hesti Widodo is CTC's Senior Program Manager and oversees Training, MPA Learning Site, and Learning Networks, including the fisheries initiative. She develops CTC’s curricula and modules, monitoring and evaluating capacity development activities for serving national and regional contexts. For the past five years, she has been involved in developing MPA management effectiveness evaluation tools and capacity-building standards for MPA practitioners and OECMs. She holds a Ph.D. in coastal resources management at the Diponegoro University in Indonesia. Hesti holds a Master of Research in Environmental Social Science from the University of Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, and a Master of Management in International Marketing from Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Her research includes capacity building, management effectiveness, social economics, gender in coastal communities, and sea turtle habitat.