Abigail Cruzada is the Secretariat Coordinator of PEMSEA Resource Facility. She has over eight years of experience in public administration, project management, and policy development. Having worked as a Development Management Officer and Executive Assistant to a Climate Change Commissioner in the Climate Change Commission (CCC), she gained valuable skills in developing policies on climate adaptation initiatives in coastal and marine ecosystems, climate finance, and circular economy.  She has also served as a secretariat coordinator for CCC and the Cabinet Cluster for Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction. She also worked as a project associate on a USAID-funded project where she facilitated local coastal governments in developing their local climate change adaptation plans.

Abi holds a Bachelors Degree in Biology from the University of the Philippines Diliman and is currently completing her thesis on Integrated River Basin Management for her MA in Development Studies majoring in Agrarian, Food and Environmental Studies at the International Institute for Social Studies of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.