Veerle Vandeweerd is the Director of the UNDP Environment and Energy Group and CoChair of the Global Ocean Forum. Veerle provides background on the Global Forum and context for the 4th Global Conference on Oceans Coasts and Oceans.
Rolph Payet is Special Adviser to the President of the Seychelles. He is also Chair of the Global Forum Working Group: Small Island Developing States, which advocates and promotes small island states issues especially in relation to oceans.
President James Alix Michel, President of the Republic of the Seychelles, gave a keynote address to the 4th Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts and Islands, The topic of the address was "Climate Change, Oceans and Vulnerable Communities and Ecosystems: The imperitive for internation responses to the climate divide"
Co Chair and Head of Secretariat, Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands. Director, Gerard J. Mangone Center for Marine Policy, University of Delaware
Lucy Emerton is an economist and Head of the Global Economics & the Environment Programme, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Here she discusses a mechanism called Payment for Environmental Services, something which is increasingly being used in conservation to give people incentives to save the environment.
Carl Bruch is an attorney with the Environmental Law Institute where he is Co-Director of their International Programs. He is also Co-Chair of the Global Forum Compliance and Enforcement Working Group. He discusses the challenges, experiences, needs and opportunites of compliance and enforcement in relation to oceans, coasts and islands.
Governor S. H. Sarundajang, North Sulawesi Province, Republic of Indonesia welcomes people to the World Ocean Conference, 11-15 May 2009 in Manando, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Gerard Mangone is a Professor of International and Maritime Law at the University of Delaware in the USA and the founder of the Center for Marine Policy. He is Chair of the Global Forum Working Group on Maritime Transport and here discusses the issues associated with marine transportation..
Paul Epstein is Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. This Center is devoted to looking at the health consequences of environmental change.
Indu Hewawasam is a marine policy specialist with The World Bank and Global Forum Chair for the Capacity Development Working Group. She talks about some of the issues related to capacity building.
Ambassador Angus Friday is Permanent Representative of the Grenada Mission to the United Nations and Current Chairman of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). He is also Co Chair of the Global Forum Working Group on Small Island Developing States (SIDS). He discusses the work and focus of AOSIS and the Global Forum SIDS Working Group
Salvatore Arico is co-chair of the Global Forum Working Group with a focus on the high seas, specifically areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction. Salvatore discusses the issues associated with genetic resources in the deep sea.
Janot Mendler de Suarez is with the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and Deputy Director & Project Coordinator of International Waters: Learning Exchange and Resource Network (IW-Learn). Janot is talking about one of the most important global aspects of ocean management, the relationship between climate, oceans and security.
Ken Sherman heads the Large Marine Ecosystems Program at the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service in USA. He also co-chairs the Global Forum Working Group on Large Marine Ecosystems and is discussing issues associated with and methods to deal with large marine ecosystems.
Lori Ridgeway is Director General of International Policy and Integration in the Canadian Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans. She explains where fishing fits into the ocean agenda.
