Presenters

Jimmy Adegoke

Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Kansas City, MO, USA

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Grunde Kreken Almeland

State Secretary, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries, Norway
Norway

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Julian Barbiè‌re

Head, Marine Policy and Regional Implementation Section, IOC-UNESCO
Paris, France

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Susana Barbosa

Senior Researcher, INESC TEC/AIR_DataNET,
Portugal

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Eric Barron

President, Penn State
University Park, PA, USA

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Stewart Bernard

Chief Scientist, South African National Space Agency
South Africa

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Gabrielle Canonico

Program Manager, U.S. Marine Biodiversity Observation Network, NOAA/IOOS
Silver Spring, MD, USA

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Esperança Costa

Secretary of State of Fisheries
Angola

Karima Degia

Registered Professional Engineer (Coastal Engineering)
Project Manager, UWI-CERMES
Cave Hill, Barbados

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Pedro Duque

Minister of Science and Innovation, Spain
Spain

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Frederico Ferreira

Forum Oceano / AARC
Portugal

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Sigi Gruber

Head of Unit, Healthy Oceans & Seas, European Commission
Belgium

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Manuel Heitor

Minister of Science
Lisbon, Portugal

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Greg Jenkins

Professor, Department of Meteorology, Penn State
Director, AESEDA
University Park, PA, USA

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Jack Kaye

Associate Director for Research, Earth Science Division, NASA Science Mission Directorate
Washington DC, USA

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Andrew Kruczkiewicz

Senior Staff Associate, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University
Palisades, NY, USA

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Lee Kump

Dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Penn State
University Park, PA, USA

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Salvador Landeros

Director General, Mexican Space Agency
Mexico

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João Lorenzetti

National Institute for Space Research (INPE)
Brazil

Sam Mafwila

Director, SANUMARC, University of Namibia
Lecturer, Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Windhoek, Namibia

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Larry Mayer

Director, UNH School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering
Advisor, US Federal Ocean S&T Enterprise
Durham, NH, USA

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Jen McCann

Director of U.S. Coastal Programs, Coastal Resources Center, URI
Director of Extension Programs, Rhode Island Sea Grant
Kingston, RI, USA

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Craig McLean

Deputy Assistant Administrator for Research, NOAA
Silver Spring, MD, USA

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Gui Menezes

Regional Secretary of the Sea, Science and Technology Azores
Portugal

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Jerry Miller

Founder and CEO, Science for Decisions
Washington DC, USA

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Miguel Bello Mora

CEO, Atlantic International Research Centre
Madrid, Spain

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Rocío Moreno

Senior International Project Manager and Telecommunications Engineer, Preservation Balearic Islands
Spain

Ramiro Neves

Associate Professor at IST, Universidade de Lisboa
Vice-President, MARTEC
Lisboa, Portugal

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Ana Noronha

Executive Director, Ciência Viva
Portugal

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David Obura

Founding Director, Coastal Oceans Research and Development – Indian Ocean (CORDIO) East Africa
Mombasa, Kenya

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Ogbonnaya Onu

Minister of Science and Technology
Nigeria, Africa

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Terry Quinn

Director of Ocean Sciences, NSF
USA

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Minoo Rathnasabapathy

Research Engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA

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Tom Richard

Director of Penn State Institutes for Energy and the Environment
Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
University Park, PA, USA

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Julieta Izidro Rodrigues

Minister of Education and Higher Education
São Tomé and Príncipe

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Maria do Rosário Sambo

Minister of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation
Angola

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João Carlos Oliveira da Silva

Secretary of Environment of the State of Bahia
Brazil

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Reece Smyth

Department of State, Office of Science and Technology Cooperation
USA

Amanda Solloway

Minister for Science, Research and Innovation, United Kingdom
United Kingdom

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Daan du Toit

Deputy Director-General: International Cooperation and Resources, Department of Science and Innovation, South Africa
South Africa

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Cesar Toro

IOC Secretary for IOCARIBE, IOC-UNESCO
Bolívar, Columbia

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Vaughan Turekian

Executive Director of the Division on Policy and Global Affairs, NASEM
Washington, DC, USA

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Paulo Veiga

Minister of Maritime Economy, Cabo Verde
Cabo Verde

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Zdenka Willis

CEO, Veraison Consulting LLC
President, Marine Technology Society
Great Falls, VA, USA

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Tom Wolf

Governor of Pennsylvania
Harrisburg, PA, USA

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Jan Wörner

Director, General European Space Agency
Germany

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David Yoskowitz

Senior Executive Director and Endowed Chair for Socio-Economics, Harte Research Institute
Corpus Christi, TX, USA

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Sally Yozell

Senior Fellow and Director of the Environmental Security program, Stimson Center
Washington DC, USA

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