WORKING GROUP LEADER:
Indumathie Hewawasam, Independent Consultant, formerly The World Bank
WORKING GROUP MEMBERS:
Fazal Ibrahim Ali, Universities Consortium Coordinator, University of the West Indies
Margarita Astralaga, IUCN-Spain
Robert Bechtloff, UNEP/GPA
Awni Behnam, International Ocean Institute
Charles A. Buchanan, Administrator Luso-American Development Foundation, Portugal
Chua Thia-Eng, PEMSEA
Margaret Davidson, U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Coastal Services Center
Ehrlich Desa, Capacity Building Section, UNESCO
Ambassador Luís Fonseca, Comunidade dos Países de Lingua Portuguesa (CPLP)
Anamarija Frankic, University of Massachusetts Boston
Julius Francis, Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association, Tanzania
Guillermo Garcia Montero, Acuario Nacional, Comité Oceanografico Nacional, Cuba
Ampai Harakunarak, Thailand Environment Institute
Alice Hicuburundi, UN DOALOS
Gunnar Kullenberg, Independent Consultant and former Director, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
Mai Trong Nhuan, Ha Noi National University, Vietnam
Robin Mahon, Caribbean LME Programme
Jan Mees, Flanders Marine Institute, Belgium
Ali Mohamed, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of State for Special Programmes, Kenya
Magnus Ngoile, Marine and Costal Environment Management Project, Tanzania
Michael O’Toole, Benguela Current LME
Marina N’Deye, Portugal
Isabel Noronha, Portugal
Victoria Radchenko, International Ocean Institute, Ukraine
Evelia Rivera-Arriaga, Centro de Ecologia, Pesquerias y Oceanographia del Golfo de Mexico, (EPOMEX), Mexico
Mario Ruivo, Portuguese Committee for Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
Dann Sklarew, GEF IW:LEARN
Cesar Toro, IOCARIBE
Grant Trebble, African Marine and Coastal Resource Overexploitation Prevention Strategy (AMCROPS), South Africa
LaVerne Walker, Coastal Zone Unit, St. Lucia
Dixon Waruinge, UNEP Regional Seas
Khulood Tubaishat, Regional Organization for the Conservation of the Environment of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden (PERSGA)
Nedal M. Al Ouran, Al-Balqa Applied University, Jordan, and Advisor to PERSGA
Ademilson Zamboni, Integrated Coastal Zone Management Program, Brazil
Ignatius KV Kauvee, University of Namibia