Dr. Vladimir Ryabinin is the Executive Secretary of the IOC, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, and Assistant Director-General of UNESCO.
He is an oceanographer, marine engineer, meteorologist and climatologist. He is responsible for several mathematical models for the ocean, atmosphere, wind, waves and so on and has authored hundreds of scientific publications.
Since the 1980s, Ryabinin has been involved in the activities of the United Nations in various capacities and has contributed to the core design and coordination of such international initiatives as the Global Ocean Observing System and the World Climate Research Programme.
The current work of the IOC and Ryabinin is focused on creating a solid scientific foundation for managing the ocean sustainably, including through the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, 2021–2030.
SPEAKERS & MODERATORS
Jerome Aucan
Head of the Pacific Community Center for Ocean Science, The Pacific Community (SPC), Fiji/New Caledonia
Claudia C. Baron-Aguilar
Ph.D. student, University of South Florida (USF) & Member of the Wayuu indigenous community
Silvia Chacon-Barrantes
Coordinator, National Tsunami Monitoring System (SINAMOT)
Professor, National University of Costa Rica
Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Director, German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Germany
Simone Pennafirme
Manager, Marine Life Center, Secretariat for Environment of the City Hall of Rio de Janeiro
Jacqueline Yamileth Rivera Ayala
Civil engineer and vulcanological monitoring coordinator, Hazards Monitoring Center, DOA, MARN
Emiliano Rodriguez Nuesch
Director at Pacifico risk communications agency and consultant in risk communications and behavioral science
Vladimir Ryabinin
Executive Secretary, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO
Raul Salazar
Chief of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), Secretariat for the Americas, Panama
Ria Sen
Lead Preparedness Officer, Global Emergency Telecommunications Cluster, World Food Programme
Sebastian Unger
Head of Ocean Governance Research Group, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, Germany
Christa von Hillebrandt-Andrade
Deputy Director, International Tsunami Information Center, Caribbean Office, Puerto Rico