Recognizing the urgent need to support professionals and practitioners in marine conservation, CTC institutionalized an integrated portfolio of Marine Protected Area learning sites, customized training programs and learning networks with partners to protect and manage the coastal and marine ecosystems throughout the Coral Triangle region, the epi-center for marine bio-diversity in the world. Her long held vision to develop a unique CTC learning facility with interactive exhibitions and games on marine conservation to inspire and engage the public in conserving coral reefs and the oceans became reality through the establishment of the Center for Marine Conservation in Sanur, Bali in 2017. Rili held several senior positions in The Nature Conservancy (TNC) from 1995 to 2011 including Program Director for the Coral Triangle region and Country Director for the Indonesia Program. She was part of TNC’s core team that helped establish the multi-national Coral Triangle Initiative for Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security (CTI-CFF) in 2009. Prior to TNC, Rili established the WWF marine conservation program in Indonesia for the WWF Indonesia Program from 1989 to 1993. In those years, she surveyed numerous potential MPA sites across the archipelago from Sabang to Merauke. She was involved in the planning and implementation of several long-term coastal and marine programs in Indonesia funded by bi-and multi-lateral donors (USAID, Worldbank). Rili holds a Master of Science degree in tropical marine ecology from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and a Master of Science in tropical coastal zone management from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in United Kingdom. She completed The Executive Program (TEP) - strategic leadership at the top - at Darden School of Business, University of Virginia (UVA) in the US in June 2013. She has extensive diving experience in the Netherlands, Mediterranean, Caribbean, Indonesia and Asia-Pacific.