SPEAKERS & MODERATORS

Secretary General of the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection

Head of State - Principality of Monaco

Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme

Director-General, UNESCO

Head of Marine Policy and Regional Coordination Section, UNESCO/IOC

Director of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

Chief Communications, Brand and Sustainability Officer and Member of AXA’s Management Committee

Oceanic Volcanism – Research Division “Dynamics of the Ocean Floor”, GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany

News Anchor, BBC World News TV

Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (ICML) UNAM

2x World Record holder and Oceana Ambassador

European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education, Youth and Sport

Program Manager, Shipping Decarbonization Initiative, Aspen Institute

António Guterres

Secretary-General of the United Nations

Chief Executive Officer, International Science Council

Chief Executive Officer, Fugro

Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), United Kingdom

EVP, Global Head of the Ocean Industries Division, DNB Bank ASA

Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, South Shore – St. Margarets, Canada

German Federal Minister of Education and Research

Deputy Director for Climate and Environment, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

South African All-Atlantic Ocean Youth Ambassador

Former MEP, Chair National Committee for the UN Decade Ocean Science for Sustainable Development

Angela Merkel

Chancellor of Germany

Director General, Pacific Community

National University of Singapore

Early Career Disaster Scientist, University of Delaware

Director General, International Union for Conservation of Nature 

CEO & Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre

President of the Republic of Seychelles

Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO

Minister of the Sea,

Portugal

German All-Atlantic Ocean Youth Ambassador

Ambassador UNSG Special Envoy for the Ocean

Science Journalist