Maria Sarmento Tae is currently the Communications Officer at the National Directorate of Inspection of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management of Timor Leste. She has a background on Geology and Environmental Studies from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She has been working in the National Directorate of Inspection for Fisheries for almost five (5) years and her role is to facilitate the communication between all relevant agencies in the national, regional and international level in the matters of combating IUU Fishing.
She joined several MCS related training courses to enhance her fisheries inspections abilities and worked as a counterpart to the JICA Advisor working in Timor-Leste fisheries sector and involving research related to fish consumption.