WORKING GROUP LEADERS:

Paul Nemitz, EC DG-MARE
David Johnson, OSPAR
Patrick Anvroin, CPMR
Kenneth Sherman, NOAA
Ellik Adler, COBSEA
David VanderZwaag, Dalhousie University
David Freestone, IUCN
Julian Barbiere, IOC, UNESCO
Rebecca Lent, NOAA
Clement Lewsey, NOAA
Jacqueline Alder, UNEP
Jean-Francois Pulvenis de Seligny, FAO
Raphael Lotilla, PEMSEA
Vincent Sweeney, UNEP/Integrating Watershed and Coastal Areas Management Project, Caribbean
Takashi Ichioka, Ocean Policy Research Foundation, Japan
Michele LeMay, InterAmerican Development Bank
Arthur Webb, SOPAC

WORKING GROUP MEMBERS:

Steven Murawski and Jack Dunnigan, NOAA
Nguyen Chu Hoi, Deputy Administrator, Vietnam Association for Seas and Islands, Vietnam
Al Duda, Global Environment Facility
Peter Bjornsen, UNEP-DHI Center, Denmark
Gi-Jun Han, Ministry of Land, Transportation and Maritime Affairs, Republic of Korea
Camille Mageau/Jake Rice, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada
Antonio Diaz de Leon,Environment and Natural Resources Ministry (SEMARNAT), Mexico
Khulood Tubaishat, The Regional Organization for the Conservation of the Environment of the Red Sea

 and Gulf of Aden (PERSGA)
David Vousden and Magnus Ngoile,  Agulhas Somali Currents Large Marine Ecosystems Project
Ali Mohammad, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of State for Special Programmes, Kenya
Tonny Wagey, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Indonesia
Letitia Obeng, Global Water Partnership
Indumathie Hewawasam, Independent Consultant, formerly The World Bank
Mick O’Toole, Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem Programme
Qinhua Fang, Environmental Science Research Centre of Xiamen University, China

Stefano Belfiore, UNESCO
Philippe Vallette, World Ocean Network, NAUSICAA, France
Nelson Andrade and Christopher Corbin, Caribbean Environment Programme, UNEP
Margaret Davidson, Zac Hart, and Ginger Hinchcliff, NOAA Coastal Services Center
Fernando Almuna, Chile
Milton Asmus, International Representative, Brazilian Agency for Coastal Management
Dan Basta, NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries Program
Dominique Benzaken, Marine Division of the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the

 Arts, Australia
Fatima Dia Toure, Senegal
Rudolf Dorah, Solomon Islands
Kristina Gjerde, IUCN
Vladimir Golitsyn, International Tribunal on Law of the Sea (ITLOS) and Moscow State University of

 International Relations
Lynne Hale, The Nature Conservancy
Marea Hatziolos, World Bank
Andrew Hudson, UNDP
Pablo Huidobro, GEF Gulf of Mexico LME
Timothy Kasten, UNEP, DEPI, Nairobi
Carl Lundin, IUCN
Vladimir Mamaev, UNDP, Europe and the CIS
Liana T. McManus, University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science
Yuriy Mikhaylichenko, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation
Tony Ribbink, CEO, Sustainable Seas Trust, South Africa
Alan Simcock, Independent Consultant, UK, former Co-Chair, UNICPOLOS
Indroyono Soesilo, Secretary, Coordinating Ministry for Peoples’
Welfare, Indonesia
Kristian Teleki, International Coral Reef Action Network, UNEP WCMC
Hiroshi Terashima, Institute for Ocean Policy, Ocean Policy Research Foundation, Japan
Isabelle Van der Beck, GEF International Waters Projects in Latin America, UNEP
Dixon Waruinge, UNEP Regional Seas Programme
Clive Wilkinson, Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network
Yihang Jiang, GEF Yellow Sea LME
Ignatius KV Kauvee, University of Namibia