Aboud S. Jumbe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nDr. Aboud S. Jumbe<\/strong> is the Principal Secretary at the Ministry of Blue Economy and Fisheries, Zanzibar, in the United Republic of Tanzania. Dr. Jumbe has been involved in various dialogue and development processes in the implementation of Ocean Governance, Blue Economy & Marine Spatial Planning processes, focusing on the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) and the UNEP Nairobi Convention Area.\u00a0Moreover, Dr. Jumbe has also taken part in programs related to Blue Economy initiatives in the WIO region supported by the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC), United Nations\u2019 Economic Commission for Africa\u2019s (UNECA), Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) and UNDP. Under the UNEP Nairobi Convention, Dr. Jumbe has participated in various Marine Regions Forums initiative, and the aspirations to develop an Ocean Governance Strategy across the Regional Seas Programs \u2013 creating an effective and multilateral partnership for a future management of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction, especially in the Western Indian Ocean Region.\u00a0Dr Jumbe holds BSc. Degree (General) Botany, Chemistry and Zoology from the University of Delhi (2000). He also holds MSc. and PhD Degrees, respectively, in Environmental Sciences, from the University of Bangalore (India).<\/p>\n <\/p>\nMarkus Knigge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nMarkus Knigge <\/strong>is Executive Director of the Blue Action Fund which supports non-governmental organizations in their efforts to conserve the oceans and coastlines in the developing world. In that capacity, Markus has overall responsibility for implementing and evaluating the grant programme, as well as for managing day-to-day operations. Prior to Blue Action Fund, Markus worked in various positions for the Pew Charitable Trusts where he built up the European Marine Program and led Pew\u2019s efforts to end overfishing in the EU. He also worked as EU Marine Programme Officer with the WWF European Policy Office and as a senior fellow with the Ecologic Institute in Berlin and Brussels. As a scholar of the German Academic Exchange Service, Markus graduated with distinction from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University with a master\u2019s degree in international affairs and international economics. Prior to that, he received the equivalent of a master\u2019s degree in urban and regional planning from Technische Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Germany.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Gaetano Leone <\/strong>is the Coordinator of the UNEP Mediterranean Action Plan-Barcelona Convention Secretariat, based in Athens, Greece since June 2014. He has strong and diverse experience of political and inter-organizational affairs, inter-governmental processes, leadership and management, and partnerships, especially in the field of sustainable development. A national of Italy, Gaetano Leone graduated in Political Sciences and specialized in International Relations. In 1988, after 3 years as a manager in the private sector, he joined the United Nations. Since then, he has covered UN assignments of increasing responsibility in several African and European countries and in the USA. These include work for several UN agencies and programmes (United Nations Development Programme – UNDP, Unicef, UN-Habitat and currently United Nations Environment Programme – UNEP), and at the World Bank. From 2010-2014, he was Deputy Secretary of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).<\/p>\n <\/p>\nRonan Long<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRon\u00e1n Long<\/strong> is the Director of the WMU-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute at the at the World Maritime University (WMU) in Malm\u00f6, Sweden, and holds the Nippon Foundation Chair in Ocean Governance and the Law of the Sea. He is the author\/co-editor of 12 books and over 100 scholarly articles on oceans law and policy. He read for his PhD at the School of Law Trinity College Dublin has been a Senior Visiting Scholar-in-Residence at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Visiting Scholar at the Center Oceans Law and Policy at the University of Virginia. He teaches on the Law of the Sea programme at Harvard Law School. Prior to his academic career, he was a permanent staff member at the European Commission and undertook over 40 missions on behalf of the European Institutions to the Member States of the European Union, the United States of America, Canada, Central America as well as to African countries. During his previous career in the Irish Naval Service, he won an academic prize at Britannia Royal Naval College and held a number of appointments ashore and afloat, including membership of the Navy\u2019s elite diving unit.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nRashid Smaila<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRashid Sumaila <\/strong>is Professor and Director of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries & School for Policy and Global Studies, University of British Columbia. He specializes in bioeconomics, marine ecosystem valuation and the analysis of global issues such as fisheries subsidies, illegal fishing, climate change and oil spills. Sumaila is widely published, with over 230 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Science, Nature and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. Sumaila has won a number of awards such as the 2017 Volvo Environment Prize; the 2017 Benchley Oceans Award in Science, the 2016 UBC Killam Research Prize, and the 2013 American Fisheries Society Excellence in Public Outreach Award, the Stanford Leopold Leadership Fellowship and the Pew Marine Fellowship. Sumaila was named a Hokkaido University Ambassador in 2016.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nKristian Teleki<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nKristian Teleki <\/strong>has more than two decades of strategic and senior management experience in the areas of ocean policy and science, environment, sustainability and development. He has broad international high-level experience in more than 35 countries, negotiating and managing projects in the public and private sectors. In addition to serving as director of the Sustainable Ocean Initiative at WRI, Kristian is head of the Friends of Ocean Action for the World Economic Forum and the Head of the Secretariat to the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy. Until early 2018, he was the senior marine adviser to the Prince of Wales\u2019s International Sustainability Unit, and the director of engagement for the Ocean Unite network, an initiative of the non-profit arm of the Virgin Group. From 2012 to 2016, he was the director of global engagement at the Global Ocean Commission. Kristian has also served as vice president of SeaWeb (2009-2012), where he was responsible for sustainable-markets, science, and Asia-Pacific programmes, head of the marine programme at UNEP – World Conservation Monitoring Centre (2006-2009), and director of the International Coral Reef Action Network (2001-2009).<\/p>\n <\/p>\nDire Tladi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nDire Tladi<\/strong> is professor of international law at the University of Pretoria and an extraordinary professor at the University of Stellenbosch. He has served as the Principal State Law Adviser for International Law for the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation and the South Africa Permanent Mission to the\u00a0United Nations. His main academic specializations are in public international law. On 1 January 2012, he commenced his five-year term as member of the International Law Commission and was re-elected in 2016. At the ILC, he is Special Rapporteur for the topic Peremptory Norms of General International Law. \u00a0He is also a member of the Institut de Droit International.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
<\/p>\nAmbassador Ngedikes Olai Uludong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAmbassador Ngedikes Olai Uludong <\/strong>is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative of Palau to the United Nations. Prior to her current appointment, H.E. Ms. Ngedikes Olai Uludong served as Palau\u2019s Ambassador to the European Union and Belgium. Serving concurrently as Ambassador on Climate Change and Permanent Representative of Palau to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, she was the lead negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island States on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2012 to 2014.\u00a0 She holds a Master of Science Degree in Climate Change from the University of the South Pacific.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nOsvaldo Urrutia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nOsvaldo Urrutia<\/strong> is a Professor on public international law at the Faculty of Law, P. Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso in Chile. He was previously the Chairperson of the Commission of the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO) and before that he successfully fulfilled the role of Chairperson of the SPRFMO Compliance and Technical Committee. He served for nearly a decade as legal and policy adviser for the Government of Chile in the area of international fisheries and Law of the Sea. He is also a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Valpara\u00edso (PUCV) in Valparaiso, Chile. Mr. Urrutia is currently based in Wellington, New Zealand.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nAmbassador M\u00e9ntor Villag\u00f3mez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAmbassador M\u00e9ntor Villag\u00f3mez<\/strong>, current Secretary General of the Permanent Commission for the South Pacific, is a career diplomat with the Ecuadorian Foreign Service for more than forty five years. He has a Doctor\u2019s degree in Jurisprudence from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, a Master\u2019s Degree in Business Management from the Institute of Business Development of Quito, as well as various Diplomas in international studies from The Hague International Law Academy, Georgetown University and University of Texas at Dallas. He is fluent in Spanish, English and French. He has been Ecuador\u2019s Foreign Trade vice Minister and Chief Trade Negotiator. He has also served as Ambassador to the European Union, Belgium, Luxemburg, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. He is married with three children and four grandsons and lives in Guayaquil, Ecuador.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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