Jacqueline Uku
President, Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association
Dr. Jacqueline Uku is the President of the WIOMSA and has developed a career as a seagrass scientist based at the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, Mombasa. She has contributed to the development of the National Environmental Policy as a member of the National Steering Committee. She has also been a mentor under the African Women Agricultural Research and Development Programme (AWARD). She has served as a technical member of the National Blue Economy Technical Committee and continues to support the Kenyan team for the High Level Panel for Ocean Science. Uku has also been Co-chair of the Editorial Board of the 2nd Edition of the Global Ocean Science Report. In 2019 she received the NK Panniker Award for capacity building from the IOC-UNESCO General Assembly. She is a co-opted member of the Executive Committee of SCOR.
SPEAKERS & MODERATORS
Antje Boetius
Director, Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Germany
Daniel Dunn
Director, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, University of Queensland, Australia
Karen Evans
Principal Research Scientist, Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Tasmania
Diego Sancho Gallegos
Surf Conservation Data Coordinator, Save The Waves Coalition (STW), Costa Rica
Kristina M. Gjerde
Senior High Seas Advisor, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Global Marine and Polar Programme, USA
Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Director, The German Development Institute (DIE)/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Germany
Simone Pennafirme
Manager, Marine Life Center, Secretariat for Environment of the City Hall of Rio de Janeiro
J. Murray Roberts
Professor, University of Edinburgh’s School of GeoSciences & Head, Changing Oceans Research Group & Coordinator, European Horizon 2020 iAtlantic Project, Scotland
Vladimir Ryabinin
Executive Secretary, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, France
Jens Schiffers
Scientific Officer, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany
Jörn Schmidt
Chair, Science Committee, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Denmark
Mirja Schoderer
Reseacher, The German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Germany
Sebastian Unger
Head, Ocean Governance Research Group, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, Germany
