Conservation International Senior Vice President University of New Hampshire Dean, Department of Natural Resources & the Environment
Dr. Rosenberg has had a distinguished career in the marine sciences. As former deputy director of the National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, Rosenberg was a key agency policymaker and liaison to Congress, senior levels of the administration, resource management partners, and the public. This post followed ten years with the National Marine Fisheries Service, where he played a major role in developing and implementing recovery plans for New England fisheries. Dr. Rosenberg also implemented protection plans for marine mammals such as harbor porpoise and right whales, and endangered species like Atlantic salmon. Dr. Rosenberg has been appointed by the President and U.S. Secretary of Commerce to head numerous delegations over the years. He also has served as U.S. delegate to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization Committee on Fisheries. See: http://marine.unh.edu/people/faculty/rosenberg-andrew.html
Honorary Director of the European Commission Chief Administrator for Maritime Affairs (R)
M. Serge Beslier has devoted his entire professional life to the fisheries domain within both national and Community services and is currently honorary director of the European Commission. Within the French administration, after different posts of responsibility on the coast he was Head of the office "Market organization and relation with stakeholders" at the Ministry of the Sea. Pursuant to that, he held different responsibility positions at the European Commission and became acting director of the Direction ''External Policy and Markets'' in September 2007. He holds master degrees both in Law and Political Science with a complementary specialization in the Maritime Affairs’ navy school. See: http://cfca.europa.eu/press_releases/pressrelease_171008_en.htm
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Program Director, Marine Conservation Initiative
Before joining the Foundation, Dr. Barry Gold managed the David and Lucile Packard Foundation’s efforts to develop a scientifically credible framework for ecosystem-based management of coastal-marine systems. He also directed their work to more effectively link science with policy and decision-making. Prior to that, he was chief of the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center where he led an effort to understand and restore the Colorado River ecosystem. Dr. Barry Gold has extensive experience working at the interface of environmental science and policy and has held senior positions at the Department of the Interior, the US House of Representatives, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received a B.S. from the University of Miami, an M.S. from the University of Connecticut, an M.A. from George Washington University and a D.Sc. from Washington University. See: http://www.moore.org/barry-gold.aspx
Wageningen UR, Centre for Marine Policy Director
Dr. Martin Pastoors serves as lector of Marine Policy at Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences and as senior researcher at Wageningen IMARES, Institute for Marine Resources & Ecosystem Studies. Previously he has operated as senior advisor to the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Food Quality and he has been the Chair of the ICES Advisory Committee on Fishery Management (2006-2007) and vice-chair of the ICES Advisory Committee (2008). He organized and participated in several EU funded research projects dealing with the interface between science and policy (PKFM), the development of tools for management strategy evaluations (EFIMAS, COMMIT) and the links between biological and economic sciences (EFFORT-F, TECTAC). He holds an MSc in theoretical ecology (University of Amsterdam) and a PhD on the fisheries science in policy making. See: http://www.cmp.wur.nl/UK/newsagenda/news/pastoors201109.htm
UC Santa Cruz, Institute of Marine Sciences, Coastal Processes and Geologic Hazards Director Distinguished Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences
Gary Griggs's research is focused on the coastal zone and ranges from coastal evolution and development, through shoreline processes, coastal engineering and coastal hazards. Recent research projects have focused on documenting and understanding shoreline erosion processes including temporal and spatial variations in rates of retreat; evaluating the effectiveness of coastal protection structures and the impacts of coastal engineering projects (seawalls, jetties, breakwaters) on coastal processes and beaches; evaluating littoral processes, the mechanisms which move sediment along high energy rocky coastlines; and quantifying littoral cell budgets. Gary holds a B.A. from University of California, Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. from Oregon State University. His teaching interests are Coastal Geology, Coastal Processes and Oceanography. See: http://www.es.ucsc.edu/personnel/Griggs/
European Network of Maritime Clusters Chairman
Niko Wijnolst (1946) is Chairman of the Dutch Maritime Network since 1997, full professor (shipping innovation) at Euromed Management, Marseille, and visiting professor at business schools/universities in London, Copenhagen, Rotterdam and Antwerp; He serves as supervisory board member of various maritime companies, as chairman/member of four maritime innovation platforms, and as chairman of the European Network of Maritime Clusters. From 1988-2000 Niko was part-time professor (shipping) at the Delft University of Technology (TUD), after having worked in the private sector (Furness, Rotterdam en Thyssen-Bornemisza, London) for nine years. After his study at the TUD (civil engineering, 1970) and military service, he worked as assistant professor at the TUD, where he obtained his doctorate degree in 1977. In between he worked in Kenya for the Ministry of Works. He published many articles and (co-)authored 20 maritime books. His most recent textbook Shipping Innovation was published in December 2008. See: http://ec.europa.eu/maritimeaffairs/maritimeday/cv/doc/NikoWijnolstshortCV28042009.pdf
Natural Resources Defense Council Director, International Ocean Program
Lisa Speer is Director of the Water and Oceans Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in the United States and China. Ms. Speer’s work focuses on the conservation and management of marine biodiversity and fisheries in areas beyond national jurisdiction. She received her Master’s degree from Yale University and her bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College. See: http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/nrdc/2005/10/lisa_speer.html
ISPA – Instituto Universitario
Emanuel Gonçalves’ research interests are ecology and behaviour of reef fish, fish larval ecology and recruitment and Marine Protected Areas. His studies are centred on several aspects of fish biology, ecology and behaviour, namely: life-history strategies, reproductive behaviour, territoriality, alternative reproductive tactics, community structure and dynamics, larval development and ecology, recruitment processes and conservation. Most of the work is done in the field, and we use the comparative approach with littoral fish species, particularly blennies, gobies and gobiesocids. He is also involved in studies of recruitment processes and patterns and structuring mechanisms of littoral fish communities which intent to implement a medium to long term database system, intended to contribute to the monitoring, management and design of Marine Protected Areas in Portugal. He has been involved in the development and implementation of the Portuguese and European Ocean Strategies. See: http://www.ispa.pt/ui/uie/bcao/emanuel_goncalves.asp
