Monika Jones
International TV and Conference Host, Germany
Monika Jones is one of the leading bilingual journalists and presenters in Germany. As an English speaking business anchor at Germany's global TV broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, she is familiar to a wide international audience in Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Monika is also one of Germany’s leading bilingual presenters of international conferences and events. Her regular clients include European institutions and NGOs, government ministries and top multinational companies. Monika has taken part in major international summits, moderating high-level panels at the G7, the G20 and the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP).
Monika's specialist areas are economics, finance, digitalisation, climate change, biotechnology, transport & logistics, health, mobility, life sciences, space sciences, human resources, corporate relations and emerging economies.
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