Speakers

The following plenary speakers and panelists provided valuable insights and views at the Marine Regions Forum 2019:

 

 

 

Inger Andersen, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme

 

 

 

Antje Boetius, Director, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar und Marine Research

   

 

 

Waldemar Coutts, Ambassador of Chile to Norway and Iceland

 

 

 

 

 

Maria Damanaki, Global Managing Director Oceans, The Nature Conservancy

 

 

 

Regina Dube, Head of the Department Water Management, Resource Protection and Adaptation to Climate Change, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

 

 

 

Hon. Bernhard Martin Esau, Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Namibia

 

 

 

Kristina Gjerde, Senior High Seas Advisor, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Global Marine and Polar Programme

 

 

 

Jens Frølich Holte, State Secretary, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

 

 

 

Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven, Director-General, Global Issues, Federal Ministry for Development and Economic Cooperation

 

 

 

David Johnson, Coordinator, Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative (GOBI), Seascape Consultants

 

 

 

Charlotte Karibuhoye, Director, West Africa, MAVA Foundation

 

 

 

Árni Mathiesen, Assistant Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization

 

 

 

 

Alexander Müller, Managing Director, TMG – Think Tank for Sustainability

 

 

 

David Obura, Director, Coastal Oceans Research and Development – IndianOcean (CORDIO) East Africa, Kenya

 

 

 

Andreas Papaconstantinou, Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Head of Unit Ocean Governance, Law of the Sea, Arctic Policy, European Commission

 

 

 

Hans-Otto Pörtner, Co-Chair of Working Group II of the IPCC, Alfred Wegener Institute – Helmholtz Centre for Polar und Marine Research

 

 

 

 

Angelique Pouponneau, Chief Executive Officer, Seychelles’ Conservation and Climate Adaptation Trust

 

 

Svenja Schulze, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

 

 

 

 

Peter Thomson, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean (Video Message)

 

 

 

Klaus Töpfer, Founding Director, TMG – Think Tank for Sustainability

 

 

Sébastien Treyer, Executive Director, Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI)

 

 

 

Karmenu Vella, Commissioner for the Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, European Commission (Video Message)