Andrea Belgrano
Co-Champion
E-mail: andrea.belgrano@slu.se
Web page: Link
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Aquatic Resources, Institute of Marine Research, Lysekil, Sweden and Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment (SIME), University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Ecosystem-based management for marine fisheries, ocean governance sustainability and resilience
Nireka Weeratunge Starkloff
Co-Champion
E-mail: nireka.weeratunge@yahoo.com
Web page: Link
International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Socio-cultural anthropology, environment-society interface, marine-dependent communities
Ron Vave
Deputy Co-Champion
E-mail:vaver22@ecu.edu
Web page: Link
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
Governance, resilience, indigenous people, culture, coastal fisheries, South Pacific
Ratana Chuenpagdee
E-mail: ratanac@mun.ca
Web page: Link
Ocean Frontier Institute and Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Transdisciplinary approaches to coastal fisheries and ocean governance, focusing particularly on small-scale fisheries, marine protected areas, community-based management, and food security.
Annette Breckwoldt
E-mail: annette.breckwoldt@leibniz-zmt.de
Web page: Link
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany; and Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT) Bremen, Germany
Coastal management; Social-ecological systems; Small-scale fisheries; local marine resource use and management realities; small islands; science-stakeholder interaction processes.s
Mark Dickey-Collas
E-mail: Mark.dickey-collas@ices.dk
Web page: Link
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) and Danish Technical University National Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU-AQUA), Copenhagen, Denmark
Population dynamics, ecosystem approach, science for policy, pelagic fish and fisheries
Paul Foley
E-mail: pfoley@grenfell.mun.ca
Web page: Link
Ocean Frontier Institute and Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Political economy and ecology, environmental governance and socio-economic development
Karen Hunter
E-mail: karen.hunter@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Ottawa, Canada and PICES
Climate change, fish harvesting, Marine Protected Areas
Makino Mitsutaku
E-mail: mmakino@aori.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Web page: Link
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan and PICES
Fisheries management, marine conservation policy
Prateep Nayak
V2V Global Partnership
E-mail: pnayak@uwaterloo.ca
Web page: Link
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Environmental Change; Coastal governance, Social-ecological systems; Marginalization, justice and power
Micaela Trimble
E-mail: mica.trimble@saras-institute.org
Web page: Link
South American Institute for Resilience and Sustainability Studies, Montevideo, Uruguay
Social-ecological systems; adaptive co-management; environmental governance; public participation
Luciana Gomes de Araujo
E-mail: lgaraujo21@usp.br
Web page: Link
University of São Paulo, Brazil
Research interests: Commons theory, social-ecological systems thinking, institutional theories, political ecology
Sebastián Villasante
E-mail: sebastian.villasante@usc.es
University Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Research Interests: Assessing the economic and social contribution of the oceans at multiple scales