A Safe-Ocean - Speaker and Moderator

Oceanographer, University of Ghana Regional Marine Centre

Head of the Pacific Community Center for Ocean Science, The Pacific Community (SPC), Fiji/New Caledonia

Director, German Ocean Museum, Stralsund, Germany

Ph.D. student, University of South Florida (USF) & Member of the Wayuu indigenous community

Coordinator, National Tsunami Monitoring System (SINAMOT)
Professor, National University of Costa Rica

Deputy Director-General, The Pacific Community (SPC)

Director, Tonga Meteorological Service

Director, German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Germany

Research Professor, Ocean and Resources Engineering, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

International TV and Conference Host, Germany

Senior Volcanologist, GNS Science, New Zealand

Coordinating Director, Caribbean Meteorological Organization, Headquarters Unit

Washington State Representative (Position 1, 40th Legislative District), USA

Second Vice President, WMO, and Co-Chair Joint WMO-IOC Collaborative Board

Communication Consultant, Storyteller and Development Professional, Fiji

Policy Officer, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Bonn

Manager, Marine Life Center, Secretariat for Environment of the City Hall of Rio de Janeiro

Ph.D. Researcher, German Development Institute (DIE) & BRIN Indonesia

TV Producer and Host, FBCTV

Civil engineer and vulcanological monitoring coordinator, Hazards Monitoring Center, DOA, MARN

Director at Pacifico risk communications agency and consultant in risk communications and behavioral science

Executive Secretary, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO

Chief of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), Secretariat for the Americas, Panama

Lead Preparedness Officer, Global Emergency Telecommunications Cluster, World Food Programme

Member, Chemainus First Nation

Media consultant and journalist. President, the Pacific Environment Journalists

Head of Ocean Governance Research Group, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, Germany

Deputy Director, International Tsunami Information Center, Caribbean Office, Puerto Rico

An inspiring and engaging ocean where society understands and values the ocean.

A predicted ocean where society has the capacity to understand current and future ocean conditions.

A clean ocean where sources of pollution are identified and removed.

A healthy and resilient ocean where marine ecosystems are mapped and protected.

A safe ocean where people are protected from ocean hazards.

An accessible ocean with good governance, open access to data, information and technologies.

A sustainably harvested and productive ocean ensuring the provision of food supply.