This Working Group focuses on the importance of protecting the ocean’s unique and to a large extent unknown biodiversity, while mainstreaming principles of equity and inclusivity into the responsible exploration and use of the ocean’s mineral and genetic resources.
Professor of Chemistry at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden
Professor of Biological Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, USA
Independent Consultant and Seabed Minerals Lawyer, UK
Deep-Sea Microbiologist and Senior Research Scientist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, USA
Chief Executive Officer, Seychelles’ Conservation and Climate Adaptation Trust, Seychelles
Senior Research Associate, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany
Research Scientist at Stanford’s Center for Ocean Solutions and University of British Columbia’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, Canada
Legal Adviser, Permanent Mission of the Federated States of Micronesia to the United Nations
