Jorge Arturo Jiménez
Director General, MarViva Foundation for Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia
Dr. Jorge Arturo Jiménez is the General Director of the MarViva Foundation for Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia, a position he has held for the last 15 years. Over the course of his career, he has spent more than 30 years working on issues related to marine spatial planning, wetland conservation and biological inventories. As part of this, Jiménez has been Director of the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) in Costa Rica, Director of Biological Inventories at INBIo and a researcher at the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE). He has also served as Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Ramsar Convention, Scientific Director of Wetlands International and was the recipient of Costa Rica’s National Science Award in 1990.
In addition, Jiménez holds a Ph.D. in Marine Ecology from the University of Miami and has extensive experience in the field of scientific research. He has taught at universities in Australia, Latin America, the United States and Europe.
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