Adam Ceesay
Programme Manager, Wetlands International Africa (WIACO), Dakar, Senegal
Dr. Adam Ceesay works as a Progamme Manager at Wetlands International Africa, West Coast and Gulf of Guinea (WIACO) Office in Dakar, Senegal. She is the Coordinator of the MAVA Foundation for Nature’s Outcome Action Plan Number 5 (OAP 5, PRISE), on Coastal Infrastructure in West Africa. She also serves as Strategy Lead for Partnership Development and Advocacy under the MAVA’s OAP6 (ResilienSEA) on the conservation of seagrass beds in West Africa. Most recently, she has also assumed the role of Ecoregion Lead for West Africa under DoB Ecology’s Mangrove Capital Africa (MCA) Programme.
Ceesay holds a Ph.D. in Climate Change and Biodiversity from the Felix Houphouet-Boigny University in Abidjan, having specialized in tropical mangrove ecosystems under the influence of climate and land use change. She also has a master's degree in Aquatic Science and Marine Resources Management from the National Taiwan Ocean University (Taiwan, ROC).
In her spare time, she motivates young Africans through mentoring and career counseling under the GREAT Institute (Gaining Research Experience in Africa for Tomorrow) in the Gambia.
SPEAKERS & MODERATORS
Zaidy Afrin
UN Fellow of Government of Grenada´s Blue Innovation Institute & Ph.D. Candidate at World Maritime University (WMU), Sweden
Vera Agostini
Deputy Director, Fisheries and Aquaculture Policy and Resources Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy
Kristal Ambrose
Founder and Director, Bahamas Plastic Movement; Ph.D. Candidate, World Maritime University (WMU), Sweden
Steven Bograd
Supervisory Research Oceanographer, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Institute of Marine Sciences (UCSC), USA
Jens Brandenburg
Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany
Isabella Lövin
Chair, Stockholm Environment Institute & Co-chair, Friends of Ocean Action & Author, Sweden
Carolyn Lundquist
Associate Professor at University of Auckland, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), New Zealand
Flower E. Msuya
Senior Researcher, Founder & Chairperson, Zanzibar Seaweed Cluster Initiative, Tanzania
Christian Müller
Head of marine resource exploration, German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Germany
Alexis Papathanassis
Professor for Cruise Tourism Management, the Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Angelique Pouponneau
Policy Adviser to the Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), Seychelles
Vladimir Ryabinin
Executive Secretary, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, France
Jörn Schmidt
Chair of Science Committee, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Denmark
Merete Tandstad
EAF-Nansen Programme Coordinator, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy