Isabella Lövin
Chair, Stockholm Environment Institute & Co-chair, Friends of Ocean Action & Author, Sweden
Isabella Lövin served in the Swedish government as a Minister of Development Cooperation and Minister of Environment and Climate between 2014 and 2021. She was also Deputy Prime Minister and Spokesperson of the Swedish Green Party between 2016 and 2021. Between 2009 and 2014 she was a member of the European Parliament and was a coordinator for the Greens in the Fisheries Committee, actively involved in the reform of the EU Common Fisheries Policy, adopted in 2013. As a minister, she took the initiative together with the Prime Minister of Fiji to organize and host the first UN Ocean Conference, held in New York in June 2017.
Lövin holds an Honorary Doctorate from the World Maritime University for her work to protect the oceans and from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences for her efforts to focus on fishery issues in Sweden, as well as internationally.
Before she entered politics as a member of the Swedish Green Party she was an award-winning journalist focusing on culture and environment. She has published two books: Silent Seas – the Fish Race to the Bottom 2007 (on over-fishing in Europe), and very recently Oceankänslan – om behovet av en ny berättelse, 2022 (The Oceanic Feeling, not yet published in English).
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