Marian Blondeel is senior communications specialist at Malaria Consortium and has over a decade of experience implementing advocacy and communications strategies in intergovernmental organizations, NGOs, and the public and private sectors. She has lived and worked in Guatemala, Peru, Vietnam, and now the U.K. She worked with various stakeholders to include their views and objectives in these strategies, from indigenous leaders in the Peruvian Amazon Forest to ethnic Khmer minorities in Vietnam.