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NEIL BELLEFONTAINE

World Maritime University

Professor Neil Bellefontaine has been Vice President (Academics) at WMU since

April 2011. He previously held the Canadian Chair in Marine Environmental

Protection from October 2006 to April 2013. He was formerly a senior executive

with the Canadian Fisheries and Oceans Department with broad professional

experience in maritime administration, fisheries and marine aquaculture and coastal

and oceans management. His educational background is in the fields of resource

economics and marine management and in 1998 he was presented with the

Outstanding Public Service Award by the Prime Minister of Canada.

MOON SANG KWON

Koresa Instiute of Ocean Science & Technology

Moon Sang Kwon is a principal research scientist of the Ocean Policy Institute,

Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST), Republic of Korea. He

is also a board member of the Korean Society of International Law, chair of the

Korea Ocean Policy Society, and serving as a chair of the steering committee of

the Korea Tropical Ocean Forum. He has been working as a researcher for

KIOST since October 1982 and also served as head of the policy-related

department at various times except from 2006 to July of 2009 when he was

elected as a president of the Korea Institute of Marine Science & Technology

Promotion, a specialized funding agency for the majority of the Korean ocean

science and technology projects. He has been serving as an expert government

consultant for various issues of marine affairs including issues relating to the Law

of the Sea.

He received his Ph.D in law from the Kyunghee University, Seoul, Republic of

Korea, specializing in maritime delimitation. He was a visiting scholar at the Marine

Policy Program, University of Delaware under the supervising direction of Prof.

Gerard J. Mangone.

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JORDAN D IAMOND

Law of the Sea Institute, University of California at Berkeley

Jordan Diamond is the Co-Director of the Law of the Sea Institute (LOSI) and

Executive Director of the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE) at the

UC Berkeley School of Law. LOSI is an internationally recognized forum that

facilitates in-depth, expert research and commentary on critical marine issues. CLEE

develops pragmatic policy solutions to environmental and energy challenges in

California and beyond. In both capacities, Jordan’s work focuses on ensuring laws

and policies are based on the best information available, developed through inclusive

and transparent processes, and implemented through adaptive and accountable

systems.

Previously, Jordan co-directed the Ocean Program at the Environmental Law

Institute, where she focused on strengthening Gulf of Mexico coastal restoration,

supporting Alaska Natives in Arctic marine governance, and analyzing offshore

energy management and enforcement. In 2013, Jordan received the ABA Section of

Environment, Energy, and Resources Distinguished Environmental Advocates: The

Next Generation award.

DAN BODANSKY

Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University

Daniel Bodansky is Foundation Professor at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day

O’Connor College of Law, specializing in international environmental law generally

and climate change law in particular. He previously taught at the University of

Georgia law school (2002-2010), where he held the Ernst and Emily Woodruff Chair

in International Law, and the University of Washington law school (1989-1999), and

served as Climate Change Coordinator at the U.S. State Department (1999-2001).

His book, The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law, received the 2011

Sprout Award from the International Studies Association as the best book that year

in the field of international environmental studies. His new book, International

Climate Change Law, co-authored with Jutta Brunnée and Lavanya Rajamani, was

published by Oxford University Press in June 2017. He is a graduate of Harvard

(A.B.), Cambridge (M.Phil.) and Yale (J.D.).

B ILIANA C ICIN-SAIN

Gerard J. Mangone Center for Marine Policy, University of Delaware

Dr. Biliana Cicin-Sain is Director of the Gerard J. Mangone Center for Marine Policy

and Professor of Marine Policy at the University of Delaware’s College of Earth,

Ocean, and Environment. She is a leader in the field of integrated coastal and ocean

governance, both in the United States and around the world, and has forged

international collaboration among all sectors of the international oceans community

to advance the global oceans agenda. She is the founder and President, Global

Oceans Forum, initially mobilized in 2001 to place issues related to oceans, coasts,

and island states on the agenda of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable

Development and to agree on a detailed set of global ocean targets and timelines.

Professor Cicin-Sain is the author of over 100 publications in marine policy, with an

emphasis on cross-cutting issues related to integrated ocean and coastal

governance.

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PANEL ONE

OCEAN ACIDIFICATION

L ISA SVENSSON , (MODERATOR)

United Nations Environment Programme

Dr. Lisa Emelia Svensson is the Director for Ocean, at the UN Environment,

heading up the marine and costal ecosystem work program in the UN. She has been

in the diplomatic service since 2002, posted in New York, Washington D.C. and

Brussels. Before taking up her assignment in UN, she was Sweden’s Ambassador for

Ocean, where she has advised the Government of Sweden on international ocean

affairs issues. Earlier appointments include Ambassador for Corporate Social

Responsibility, Trade Negotiator in the European Commission, DG Trade, where

she was the lead negotiator for the sustainable development chapters in the EU Free

Trade Agreements. She has also been a Diplomat-in-Residence at the Johns Hopkins

University, (SAIS), where she conducted research on climate change. She holds a

PhD in political economy. Lisa Svensson is a diplomat by training and has been in the

diplomatic service since 2002, posted in New York, Washington D.C. and Brussels.

As the Swedish Government’s Ambassador for Oceans, Seas and Fresh Water, Dr

Svensson is advising the Minister for the Environment on a broad spectrum of

marine and ocean affairs.

Dr Svensson holds a PhD in Political Economy, Innovation Policies and Practice. She

has been a Diplomat-in-Residence at the Johns Hopkins University, and has received

fellowships from Sweden-American Foundation, the Royal Swedish Academy of

Engineering Sciences and the Dr Marcus Wallenberg Foundation.

N ILUFER ORAL

Istanbul Bilgi University; UN International Law Commission

Nilufer Oral is a member of the law faculty at the Istanbul Bilgi University. She is a

member of the International Law Commission (2017-2021) and a Distinguished

Senior Scholar with the Law of the Sea Institute at the University of California

Berkeley. She has lectured at the United Nations Regional Courses in International

Law and the Rhodes Academy for the Law of the Sea.

Dr. Oral served as Chair of the IUCN Academy on Environmental Law and is a

member of the Steering Committee of IUCN World Commission on Environmental

Law. Dr. Oral is the Series editor for the International Straits of the World

publications (Brill). She has numerous publications on the law of the sea and

international law.

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RYAN KELLY

School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, University of Washington

Ryan Kelly is an Assistant Professor in the School of Marine and Environmental

Affairs at the University of Washington. His interests span the divide between hard

scientific data and policymakers' use of those data. His research joins genetic and

ecological research with real-world implementation in law and policy, particularly

with respect to environmental monitoring, resource management, endangered

species, and ocean acidification. Ryan holds a PhD from Columbia University

(Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology), and a JD from UC Berkeley.

CHARITY LEE

Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology

Charity Lee is a Principal Research Specialist for the Ocean Policy Institute at

KIOST. She earned her Master’s degree in Marine Environmental Science from the

State University of New York, Stony Brook in 1995. She also received additional MS

in secondary education in biology in 1990. After finishing up her education, she

moved back to Korea to work at KIOST. She has been working for KIOST for 20

years. Currently, she is a project coordinator for the LOSI-KIOST cooperative

project.

AH YOUNG CHO


Ah Young Cho is currently conducting research on the Law of the Sea and

Environmental Law with the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology. She

earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Earth and Environmental Sciences at Seoul National

University and went on to study at the School of Law at Seoul National University,

subsequently being admitted to the Korean Bar Association. She is also a Ph.D.

candidate in International Environmental Law at Seoul National University. Ms. Cho

holds a Certificate of Patent Attorney.

MARY W ISZ (RAPPORTEUR)


Mary S. Wisz (Ph.D. 2005 University of Cambridge), Professor, Marine Science. Dr.

Wisz’ research aims to understand and forecast how marine ecosystems respond to

changes in climate and human activities. She uses dynamic spatial modelling tools

that integrate information from many branches of the environmental sciences (e.g.

oceanographics, biodiversity, ecosystem monitoring, fisheries, genetics), along with

socioeconomics, to inform the ecological and economic consequences of

management decisions. She has worked from the tropics to the Arctic, addressing

invasive species spread, community changes in fish communities, the resilience of

tropical coral reefs, and the role of ecological connectivity in supporting ecosystem

services. At WMU she collaborates with scientists throughout the world to develop

conservation and management tools that support ocean sustainability.

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PANEL TWO

MARINE MITIGATION & CLIMATE ENGINEERING

GABRIELE GOETTSCHE-WANLI (MODERATOR)

Division of Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, UN Office of Legal Affairs

Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli has been working in the field of ocean affairs and the law

of the sea for most of her career at the United Nations, and since August 2013 in

the capacity of Director of the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea,

Office of Legal Affairs. Prior to her current position, she held the position of Chief

of the Treaty Section, Office of Legal Affairs, for three years. Before that she had

been working in the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea for 23 years,

including as Deputy Director. Ms. Goettsche-Wanli is an alumni of the National

University of Ireland, Galway, and of Columbia University, New York, from which

she graduated with a degree in international law.

SA YOUNG HONG

Korea Research Institute of Ships & Ocean Engineering

Dr. Sa Young Hong has over 31 years’ experience of offshore hydrodynamics

research related with offshore structures at Korea Research Institute of Ships and

Ocean Engineering (KRISO). He earned his BS, MS & Ph.D. degrees from Seoul

National University. He has developed most of pioneering experimental and

numerical research works in KRISO Ocean Engineering Basin for design and analysis

of floating offshore structures. He has led a national project on Very Large Floating

Structures (VLFS) research in Korea during 1999 ~ 2007. He has developed state of

the art technology of VLFS design and analysis. His research expertise covers multi-

body hydrodynamics, hydroelasticity and mooring dynamics as well. He has served

as a member of Ocean Engineering Committee of International Towing Tank

Conference ( ITTC). He also has served as a board of directors of ISOPE and the

president of Korean Society of Ocean Engineers.

MARIA GAVOUNELI

National & Kapodistrian University of Athens

Professor Maria Gavouneli LL.B. (Honours) (Athens); LL.M. (Cantab); Ph.D. (Cantab)

(Paul Guggenheim Prize); Assistant Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law,

University of Athens; Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies,

University of London; visiting professor and lecturer in several universities and

research institutions. Member of several academic organisations, including the British

Institute of International & Comparative Law (visiting researcher in 2000); the

American Society of International Law (co-chair of the Law of the Sea Interest Group

– LOSIG, 2012-2015); the European Society of International Law (co-convenor of the

Interest Group on the Law of the Sea – LAWSEA, 2014-2016); the Hellenic Society

of International Law & International Relations (Secretary-General); the Hellenic

Arbitration Association; the ILA Committee on international law and sea-level rise

(2013-); having served in the Committee on the legal principles relating to climate

change, member and co-author of the 2014 Washington Declaration on the legal

principles relating to climate change (2010-2014).

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SHERRY BRODER

Jon Van Dyke Institute, University of Hawai’i Law School

Sherry Broder concentrates in complex civil litigation and international arbitration

and teaches International and Ocean Law at the University of Hawai’i Law School.

She was the first woman President Hawai’i State Bar Association and 2016 President

Hawai’i Federal Bar Association. Recent publications: International Governance of

Ocean Fertilization and other Marine Geoengineering Activities, Ocean Law And

Policy: 20 Years Under Unclos, Scheiber, Esposito, Kraska and Kwon (eds.) (2016);

Ocean Iron Fertilization and the Challenges for International Regulatory Action,

Regions, Institutions, And Law Of The Sea: Studies In Ocean Governance, Scheiber,

Paik (eds.) (2013); Governing Ocean Resources, A Tribute To Judge Choon-Ho

Park, Van Dyke, Broder, Lee, Paik (eds.) (2013); Shipping Industry and the

Imperative to Reduce Its Air Pollution and Black Carbon Emissions, The Regulation

Of International Shipping (2012), Chircop, et al. (eds.). In 2015, she was awarded the

Solo and Small Firm Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Bar Association.

RAPHAEL BAUMLER (RAPPORTEUR)


Raphael Baumler holds a Ph.D. in Risk Management and focuses his academic work

on the impact of the vessel’s socioeconomical environment on safety and

environment. Previously, Raphael Baumler spent 20 years in a seafaring career. He

ended this occupation as Master on a large container ship.

In addition to his teaching, he is an IMO expert and consultant. He is engaged in

numerous IMO activities and missions. He also conducted projects for the IMO on

MARPOL Annex VI and Ballast Water Management Convention and shiprecycling.

He also works on social issues related to shipping and fishing sectors.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS JUDGE L IESBETH L I JNZAAD

International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (commencing 1 October 2017); Maastrich University;

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands

Dr Liesbeth Lijnzaad is the Legal Adviser of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign

Affairs. She has acted as the Agent for the Netherlands in cases before the

International Court of Justice, and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.

From 2010 - 2015, she was the co-chair of the UNGA’s Ad Hoc Open-ended

Informal Working Group to study issues relating to the conservation and

sustainable use of marine biological diversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction

(BBNJ). She is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. Recently she has

been elected as judge in the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in

Hamburg (from October 2017).

Professor dr E. Lijnzaad is endowed professor Practice of International Law at

Maastricht University. She studied law and history, receiving master’s degrees in

international law and Dutch law, and a PhD in international law from Maastricht

University.

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PANEL THREE

SHIPPING & CLIMATE INITIATIVES

MARIE JACOBSSON (MODERATOR)

Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden

Dr. Marie Jacobsson is the Principal Legal Adviser on International Law and

Ambassador at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Her work focusses on

international peace and security matters, including law of the sea. She was a Member

of the UN International Law Commission (2007-2016) and the Special Rapporteur

on the topic Protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts. She is

also Associate Professor of International Law at Lund University, Sweden.

FREDERICK KENNEY

International Maritime Organization

Frederick J. Kenney currently serves as the Director of Legal and External Affairs at

the International Maritime Organization. Prior to coming to IMO, Mr. Kenney served

as The Judge Advocate General and Chief Counsel of the United States Coast Guard,

attaining the rank of Rear Admiral. He also served on several legal capacity-building

missions in developing countries on behalf of the United States. Mr. Kenney previously

served as a judge on the Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals, and has extensive

experience as prosecutor, defense counsel and appellate counsel in criminal cases. He

also served as lead agency counsel in cases before the United States Supreme Court,

and in the litigation arising from the Macondo 252/Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Mr.

Kenney holds a JD from the University of San Francisco School of Law, where he was

editor-in-chief of the USF Maritime Law Journal. He also holds a B.A. in Economics

from Michigan State University. Mr. Kenney has published several law review articles,

has lectured widely, and was an adjunct professor of maritime law at Georgetown

University Law Center and the US Defense Institute for International Legal Studies.

KATHARINA STANZEL

INTERTANKO

Katharina Stanzel was elected Managing Director of INTERTANKO in 2012. The

fifth MD in the Association’s 45 year history, she is the first to bring an

environmental background to the position. After scientific studies in Germany and

Australia, she achieved her postgraduate qualifications in coastal management and

business administration in the UK. She spent ten years as technical advisor for the

International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation (ITOPF) before joining the IOPC

Funds, a UN body tasked with administering compensation conventions for oil

pollution from tankers.

She is a Member of the American Bureau of Shipping and sits on the Marine and

European Advisory Committees for Lloyd’s Register and RINA. In 2012, she was

honoured to be named WISTA International Personality of the Year by the Women

in Shipping Trade Association.

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MAXIMO Q. MEJIA JR .


Maximo Q. Mejia Jr. is Director of the PhD Program and Head of the Maritime Law

and Policy Specialization at the World Maritime University (WMU). Before joining

WMU, he saw duty on board naval and coast guard vessels as well as shore-based

facilities in the Philippines, including command of Port State Control Office Manila.

He earned a BSc at the United States Naval Academy (Annapolis, Maryland), an

MALD at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Medford, Massachusetts), an

MSc from WMU, and a PhD at Lund University (Lund, Sweden). He took a

sabbatical from WMU to serve as Administrator of the Maritime Industry Authority

(Philippines) from 2013 to 2016. As Administrator, Dr. Mejia was chief architect and

implementer of a comprehensive reform program of the country’s maritime

education, training, and certification system as well as other wide-ranging maritime

safety improvement efforts.

HENNING JESSEN (RAPPORTEUR)


Between 2008-2012, Henning Jessen was a Professor for Transport Law and

Maritime Law at the University of Applied Sciences Bremen, Germany. Between

2012-2016, he was an Associate Professor for Public Maritime Law, with an

emphasis on the Law of the Sea, at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Since

2016, Henning Jessen is an Associate Professor for Maritime Law and Policy at the

World Maritime University (WMU) in Malmö, Sweden. His main research areas are:

Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), International Environmental Law, International

Economic Law (WTO Law), Environmental Aspects of Uses of the Sea (esp. relating

to “Offshore Oil & Gas”), Carriage of Goods by Sea Law / International Aspects of

Transport Law, Comparative Law and EU Law.

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PANEL FOUR

COASTAL ADAPTATION & HUMAN

DISPLACEMENT

ASH ROACH (MODERATOR)

Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore

Captain J Ashley Roach, JAGC, U.S. Navy (retired) was attorney adviser in the

Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, from 1988 until he retired at

the end of January 2009. He was responsible for law of the sea matters. He has

taught, advised and published extensively on national maritime claims and other law

of the sea issues, including piracy and armed robbery at sea. He has negotiated, and

participated in the negotiation of, numerous international agreements involving law

of the sea issues. He received his LL.M. (highest honors in public international law

and comparative law) from the George Washington University School of Law in

1971 and his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1963.

AMBASSADOR ARIF HAVAS OEGROSENO

Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs, Indonesia

Arif Havas Oegroseno is currently Deputy Minister of the Coordinating Ministry of

Maritime Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia. He was the President of the 20th

Meeting of the 162 State Parties to the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea

(SPLOS). He was the Indonesian Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg, the

European Union and the World Custom Union from September 2010 to January

2015. He also worked with NATO on maritime security issues. A career diplomat

and an expert in international law of the sea, he has served in the Indonesian foreign

service for over 25 years since 1986. He was born in Semarang, Indonesia in 1963.

He is married to Sartika Oegroseno; they are blessed with two children.

CLIVE SCHOFIELD

Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, University of Wollongong

Professor Clive Schofield is Director of Research at the Australian Centre for

Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong (UOW),

Australia. He is also Leader of the Sustaining Coastal and Marine Zones research

theme within the UOW Global Challenges Program. He holds a PhD in Geography

from the University of Durham, UK and also holds an LLM in international law from

the University of British Columbia. His research on the delimitation of international

boundaries and geo-technical aspects of the law of the sea has delivered over 250

scholarly publications. Clive serves on the Advisory Board on the Law of the Sea

(ABLOS) and is a member of the International Law Association’s Committee on

International Law and Sea Level Rise. He has also been involved in the peaceful

settlement of boundary and territory disputes, through advice to governments

engaged in maritime delimitation negotiations and in multiple dispute settlement

cases.

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ROGER ZETTER

Refugee Studies Center, Oxford University

Roger Zetter is Emeritus Professor of Refugee Studies at the University of Oxford,

retiring as Director of the Refugee Studies Centre in September 2011. In an

academic career spanning almost 40 years and with regional expertise in sub-

Saharan Africa, Europe and the Middle East, his teaching, research, publications and

consultancy have included all stages of the ‘refugee and displacement cycle’; his work

focuses on the policy and institutional dimensions of the humanitarian regime and

the impacts on forcibly displaced people. He has been a consultant to UNHCR,

UNDP, UNHABITAT, UNFPA, World Bank, ILO, IOM, the EC, IFRC, Swiss Agency

for Development and Co-operation, OXFAM and Brookings-Bern Project, and the

governments of UK, NZ, Denmark, Norway and Switzerland; research funders

include ESRC, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, MacArthur

Foundation, MPI.

MARIA CAROLINA ROMERO LARES (RAPPORTEUR)


Dr. Maria Carolina Romero Lares is an Associate Professor at the WMU and has

been involved in the maritime sector for over 17 years. She was the first woman to

direct the International Office of the Venezuelan Maritime Administration, and the

first one promoted to Associate Professor at WMU.

She teaches International Maritime Conventions, Law of the Sea, Law and Policy

related to the Marine Environment. She is in charge of the Law of the Sea course.

She has delivered PDCs with special focus on Maritime Boundary Delimitations; and

has been invited to lecture at the IFLOS Summer Academy on ocean governance.

She has given conferences in Alexandria, Athens, Barcelona, Bogota, Caracas,

Cartagena, Gdynia, Hamburg, New York, and Split in topics like the protection of

the marine environment and diversity to the advancement and empowerment of

women.

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PANEL FIVE

BIODIVERSITY & CLIMATE CHANGE

DOBSON KNUDSEN , MODERATOR

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark

Henning Dobson Fugleberg Knudsen is Senior Legal Consultant in the Danish

Ministry of Foreign Affairs responsible for the Law of the Sea and the Arctic. He is

Head Of Delegation in relation to the BBNJ negotiations. He holds a Candidatus

Juris from Aarhus University, a LL.M. in Maritime Law from Oslo University and a

LL.M. in Law of the Sea from Tromsø University. Henning worked as Attorney-at-

Law in Norway, Denmark, USA and Greenland within the private sector and is

admitted to the bar in Denmark.

ROBIN WARNER

Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, University of Wollongong

Dr Robin Warner is Professor at the Australian National Centre for Ocean

Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong, Australia. She was

formerly Assistant Secretary of the International Crime Branch in the Attorney

General’s Department from 2002 to 2007 and Director of International Law for the

Australian Defence Force from 1997 to 1999. Her research interests include law of

the sea, oceans governance, marine environmental law, climate law, maritime

regulation and enforcement. She is the author of Protecting the Oceans Beyond

National Jurisdiction: Strengthening the International Law Framework (Martinus

Nijhoff, Leiden, 2009), editor (with Simon Marsden) of Transboundary

Environmental Governance: Inland Coastal and Marine Perspectives (Ashgate

Publishers, Farnham, UK, 2012),editor (with Clive Schofield) of Climate Change and

the Oceans: Gauging the Legal and Policy Currents in the Asia Pacific (Edward Elgar,

UK, 2012) and editor (with Stuart Kaye) of the Routledge Handbook of Maritime

Regulation and Enforcement (Routledge, UK, 2015).

ELISE JOHANSEN

K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea, The Arctic University of Norway

Dr. Elise Johansen is an associate professor at the K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of

the Sea, Faculty of law, UIT The Arctic University of Norway. She has taught and

published on international law of the sea and international environmental law. She is

the leader of the research project “Marine Environmental Protection” which is one

of the five research areas the K.G, Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea is organized

across. She is also leading the research project “Climate Change and the Ocean –

Mitigation and Adaptation”. Johansen has the academic responsibility for a one year

Master Program (LL.M) in Law of the Sea at the Faculty of Law, UIT the Arctic

University of Norway

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VASCO BECKER-WEINBERG

Faculty of Law, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Vasco Becker-Weinberg, Dr. iur. (Hamburg), LL.M (Lisbon), lectures at the Faculty

of Law of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa on law of the sea and ocean

governance subjects, as well as at several Portuguese and foreign universities, and he

is the co-coordinator of the LL.M program at NOVA on “The Law of the Sea and

the Sea-Economy”. Professor Becker-Weinberg has researched at prominent

academic institutions and written and published extensively in the law of the sea and

is currently undertaking post-doctoral studies in public international law at NOVA,

specifically on the relation between human rights law and the law of the sea. He is a

researcher at CEDIS – Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento sobre Direito e

Sociedade and a participant in the COST Actions “MarCons – Advancing Marine

Conservation in the European and Contiguous Seas” and “Ocean Governance for

Sustainability”. Professor Becker-Weinberg was previously legal advisor to the

Portuguese Secretary of the Sea (2013-2015) and a full-time scholar at the

International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs at the University of

Hamburg (2008-2012).

AREF FAKHRY (RAPPORTEUR)


Dr Aref Fakhry joined WMU in 2014 as an Associate Professor. He mainly lectures

in WMU's MSc Maritime Law and Policy specialisation. His areas of expertise are

commercial maritime law, maritime security, marine environmental law, and ocean

governance and policy. Aref carries 15 years’ experience as a lecturer at the IMO

International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI) and the International Ocean Institute.

Aref concurrently lectures at the Faculties of Law of the Holy Spirit University of

Kaslik in Lebanon, and the University of Malta. He has acted as a consultant for

IMO, REMPEC, UNEP, UNCTAD and the European Commission. Aref earned his

PhD from the University of Southampton where he studied the implications of

piracy in the Horn of Africa on maritime contracts. He is an advocate registered at

the Montreal Bar in Canada. He is also a member of the Canadian Maritime Law

Association. He is a citizen of both Lebanon and Canada. He speaks fluently Arabic,

English and French, and has a good level of Spanish.

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PANEL SIX

FISHERIES & CLIMATE CHANGE

OLOF L INDÉN (MODERATOR)


Professor, Nippon Chair in Marine Environmental Management, Dr. Linden also

holds a part time professorship in Coastal Management at the University of Kalmar.

Olof Linden joined WMU in 2003 when he was appointed Nippon Chair in Marine

Environmental Management. Prior to joining WMU, Dr. Linden held a professorship

at the University of Kalmar. He was Senior Scientific Advisor to the GEF/UNEP

project GIWA between 2000 and 2003. During the period 1989-2006 Olof Linden

coordinated several multi-national scientific projects including the Sida - supported

Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Development Programme, and the

Sida/World Bank/Finland supported CORDIO programme for the study of climate

change in the Indian Ocean. Dr. Linden has worked extensively for the World Bank

and several UN-agencies on projects related to marine environmental management.

Dr. Linden has published extensively on topics related to climate change in coastal

environments, the impacts of oil spills on marine ecosystems, and the impacts of

military conflicts on the environment. He co-edited (with Aldo Chircop) the book

Places of Refuge for Ships: Emerging Environmental Concerns of a Maritime Custom

the Proceedings of the International Conference on the Impacts of Climate Change

on the Maritime Industry.

W ILLIAM G IBBONS-FLY

Office of Marine Conservation, U.S. Department of State

William (Bill) Gibbons-Fly has worked to formulate and implement international

oceans policy for more than three decades. He currently serves as the Director of

the Office of Marine Conservation at the U.S. Department of State. In this capacity,

he directs and oversees the development and implementation of U.S. policy for the

conservation and management of living marine resources at the international level,

including as the lead negotiator for the United States on a wide range of treaties,

agreements, and arrangements governing the use of ocean resources. Mr. Gibbons-

Fly is also the current Chairman of the United Nations Food and Agriculture

Organization’s Committee on Fisheries (FAO/COFI), the largest and most

prominent international body guiding policy development for the fisheries and

aquaculture sector worldwide.

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R ICHARD BARNES

University of Hull

Richard Barnes is Professor of Law at the University of Hull and Director of the

McCoubrey Centre for International Law. He has lectured and written widely on

the law of the sea and international law. Noted publications include Law of the Sea:

Progress and Prospects (2006) and Property Rights and Natural Resources (2008).

The latter was awarded the SLS Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in

2009. More recent publications have focused on irregular maritime migration,

search and rescue at sea, Arctic fisheries, control of offshore renewable energy, and

the governance of areas beyond national jurisdiction. He has acted as advisor for

governmental and private agencies on maritime and marine issues, including EU

Parliament groups, Defra, the WWF, and the International Transport Workers

Federation. He is the current legal developments editor of the International Journal

of Marine and Coastal Law.

ROSEMARY RAYFUSE

Faculty of Law, UNSW Sydney

Rosemary Rayfuse is Scientia Professor of International Law at UNSW Sydney. She

is a Conjoint Professor and the Swedish Research Council Kerstin Hesselgren

Visiting Professor at Lund University and a Visiting Professor in Oceans Law and

Governance at the University of Gothenburg. Her researches focuses on issues of

oceans governance, high seas fisheries, protection of the marine environment in

areas beyond national jurisdiction, and the normative effects of climate change on

international law. Her publications include The Research Handbook on International

Marine Environmental Law (Edward Elgar, 2015), International Law in the Era of

Climate Change (Edward Elgar, 2012), and more than 300 other publications in

these and other areas of international law. She is a member of the IUCN

Commission on Environmental Law and the International Law Association's

Committee on International Law and Sea-Level Rise.

HOLLY DOREMUS


Holly Doremus is the James H. House and Hiram H. Hurd Professor of

Environmental Regulation at the University of California, Berkeley, Co-Faculty

Director of the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment, and Co-Director of

the Law of the Sea Institute. She is an elected Fellow of the American Association

for the Advancement of Science, and a past member of the Board of Directors of

Defenders of Wildlife. She holds a B.S. in biology from Trinity College (Hartford,

CT), Ph.D. in plant physiology from Cornell University, and J.D. from UC Berkeley.

Her scholarship focuses on biodiversity protection, the intersection between

property rights and environmental regulation, and the interrelationship of

environmental law and science.

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ZOE SCANLON (RAPPORTEUR)

Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore

Zoe Scanlon is a Research Associate at the Centre for International Law at the

National University of Singapore, specialising in law of the sea and international

investment law. Prior to joining CIL, Zoe Scanlon was a Senior Legal Adviser in the

Office of International Law within the Australian Government. During her time

there, Zoe advised on a variety of public international law issues including of law of

the sea, international fisheries law, IHL, dispute resolution and trade and investment

law. She has taught public international law at the Australian National University.

Zoe is on the Editorial Committee of the Australian and New Zealand Society of

International Law and is admitted to practice in the ACT Supreme Court of

Australia.

Zoe holds an LLM (specialising in public international law) from University of

Sydney, a Bachelors of Law and Arts from University of Melbourne and is a graduate

of the Rhodes Academy.

PANEL SEVEN

DISPUTE RESOLUTION & MARINE

RESTORATION

JUDGE L IESBETH L I JNZAAD (MODERATOR)

International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (commencing 1 October 2017); Maastrich University;

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands

HENRI FÉRON

Columbia University School of Law

Henri Féron is a research associate at the Center for Korean Legal Studies of

Columbia Law School. He holds an LL.M. from Columbia University, New York, a

Ph.D. in Law and LL.M. from Tsinghua University, Beijing, and a double LL.B. from

King's College London and Université Paris 1. He specializes in conflict resolution in

Asia, including law of the sea issues, and he recently published "The Philippines v.

China Jurisdictional Award and Its Implications for the Republic of Korea." He is

currently working on a joint project on compulsory dispute settlement under the

Law of the Sea Convention with the Korean Institute for Ocean Science and

Technology.

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SEOKWOO LEE

Inha University Law School

Seokwoo Lee is Professor of International Law, Inha University Law School, Korea

(2003-present). He is Chairman of the Foundation for the Development of

International Law in Asia (DILA) (2012-present). He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of

Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy (APJOLP), the Asian Yearbook of

International Law (Asian YBIL), the Executive Editor of The Korean Journal of

International and Comparative Law (KJICL), the Co-Series Editor of the book series

entitled Maritime Cooperation in East Asia, and the Associate Editor of Brill

Research Perspectives in the Law of the Sea. He has authored more than 80

publications in English in addition to his more than 80 publications in Korean. His

representative recent book publication in English is: The Making of International Law

in Korea: From Colony to Asian Power (co-authored, Brill/Nijhoff (2016)). He holds

a D.Phil. (Oxford), LL.M.s (NYU, Minnesota, and Korea University), and LL.B.

(Korea University).

RONÁN LONG


Ronán Long holds the Nippon Foundation Professorial Chair in Ocean Governance

and the Law of the Sea. He is the author/co-editor of 9 books and over 100

scholarly articles on oceans law and policy. He worked previously for the European

Commission and the Naval Service in Ireland. He has been a Senior Distinguished

Visiting Scholar-in-Residence at the Law of the Sea Institute at UC Berkeley and a

Visiting Scholar at the Center Oceans Law and Policy at University of Virginia.

Professor Long has participated as both a member and adviser of the European

Union delegation at numerous international negotiations on the codification and

development of international law of the sea. His current research interests are in

the fields of protecting marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction, the

legal basis for marine ecological restoration, maritime security law, as well as human

rights as they apply to activities that take place at sea.

JENNIE LARSON (RAPPORTEUR)


Jennie has been working since 2015 as a researcher within the field of ocean and

coastal governance and management. Before that she was working as a consultant

within the same field. The focus has been on behavioural change and developing

implementation strategies for enforcing the EU Marine Strategy Framework

Directive, as well as implementing sustainable coastal development goals,

harmonizing coastal stakeholders in order to address coastal risks and project

manage community-based management initiatives in coastal communities in Sweden

and in Greece. In 2016 she started her PhD at the World Maritime University with

a focus on participatory action research and community-based management as

means to improve ocean and coastal governance and management.

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DISCUSSION, PART 1: RAPPORTEUR PANEL

REPORTS

RONÁN LONG & JORDAN D IAMOND (MODERATORS)

DISCUSSION, PART 2: LANDSCAPE

ASSESSMENT & NEXT STEPS

DAVID FREESTONE

George Washington University School of Law; Sargasso Sea Commission

Professor David Freestone is a Professorial Lecturer and Visiting Scholar at George

Washington University Law School in Washington D.C. He is the Executive

Secretary of the Sargasso Sea Commission, and Rapporteur of the ILA Committee

on Sea Level Rise and International Law. He is founding Editor of the International

Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (now in its 32th year). From 1996-2008 he

worked at the World Bank in Washington DC, first as head of the international law

group, and from 2004-2008 as Deputy General Counsel/Senior Adviser. He holds an

advanced Doctorate in Law (LL.D) from the University of Hull, UK, and an LL.M

from the University of London. He has published more than 20 books on law of the

sea and international environmental law including World Heritage in the High Seas:

An Idea Whose Time has come (with Dan Laffoley et al., UNESCO, 2016).

CLOSING NOTES

CLEOPATRA DOUMBIA-HENRY


Dr. Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry (LL.B, LL.M, Ph.D International Law) joined WMU as

President in the summer of 2015. Prior to joining WMU, she served as the Director

of the International Labour Standards Department of the International Labour

Office (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland.

Dr. Doumbia-Henry began her career at the University of the West Indies,

Barbados, as a lecturer in law. She later worked with the Iran-US Claims Tribunal in

The Hague, The Netherlands and then joined the ILO in 1986 where she served

both as a senior lawyer of the Organization and in several management positions.

Dr. Doumbia-Henry has has published extensively on a wide range of international

law subjects, including on: International labour standards and trade, the Maritime

Labour Convention, 2006, the Seafarers Identity Documents' Convention, 2003 and

the Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Sea.

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OTHER PARTICIPANTS & ORGANIZERS

ANTHONY GREHAN

National University of Ireland, Galway

Dr. Grehan has focused his recent research on the mapping/characterisation, habitat

suitability modeling, identification of impacts and conservation of cold-water coral

reefs and the sustainable management of deep-sea resources in general with a

particular interest in marine spatial planning. Dr. Grehan has developed a keen

awareness of policy matters through participation over 20 years, in European funded

marine projects and recently coordinated the 11 country, large integrating EU FP7

project: 'CoralFISH' - Ecosystem based management of deep-sea corals, fish and

fisheries. Dr. Grehan is currently a work package leader in the EU H2020 project

‘ATLAS’ - A Trans-AtLantic Assessment and deep-water ecosystem-based Spatial

management plan for Europe and is a co-work package leader in the EU H2020

project ‘Merces’ - Marine ecosystem restoration in changing European. Publications:

http://www.nuigalway.ie/our-research/people/natural-sciences/anthonygrehan/

DAVID LANGLET

University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Professor Langlet is the holder of the newly established chair in Ocean governance

law at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg,

Sweden. He has previously worked as senior lecturer and subject-director of

environmental law at Stockholm University and as a research fellow at the Faculty of

Law at Oxford University. His research has touched on a wide range of topics in the

fields of environmental law, law of the sea, energy law, and international economic

law.

CHANGYOUL LEE


Lee Changyoul obtained his Ph.D. in international law of the sea from the University

of Sungkyunkuan. He studied as a scholarship recipient at Brain Korea 21 Law

Program from September 2007 to August 2010 in University of Sungkyunkuan and

was a Senior Researcher at International Marine Affair & Territory Research

Department in Korea Maritime Institute from March 2011 to January 2014. As of

February 2014, he is a Senior Researcher for Ocean policy Section of Korea

Institute of Ocean Science and Technology. His main research areas are maritime

boundary issues and territorial disputes and he haspublished many articles and policy

reports on these topics

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ANDREW M ILLER

University of California at Berkeley School of Law

Andrew is a third-year student at UC Berkeley School of Law. His work broadly

spans environmental law, but lately he has focused on the intersection of land use

and climate change adaptation. He is particularly interested in coastal issues,

including how communities can best adapt to sea-level rise.

Before law school, Andrew studied earth sciences and civil engineering at Stanford

University. While at Stanford, he researched the potential for marine debris to

serve as a vector for invasive species. In his spare time, Andrew is an avid freediver.

JEONG-HO ROH


Jeong-Ho Roh is a recognized expert on North and South Korean legal relations.

Specializing in the development of constitutionalism and democracy in both the

South and North Korean legal systems, as well as U.S. and East Asian international

transactions, he served as legal advisor to the Korean Ministry of National

Unification on the KEDO North Korean Light-water Reactor Project and he is a

member of the Korean Ministry of Justice's New Round Legal Assistance Council. In

2004–2008, he served as associate professor of law at Yonsei University in Seoul. A

member of the New York Bar, he worked in private practice at Skadden, Arps,

Slate, Meagher & Flom from 1988 to 1990 in New York and Bae, Kim & Lee from

1993 to 1994 in Seoul. He also served as 1st Lieutenant in the Republic of Korea

Army from 1990 to 1993. As a lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School, he teaches

Geopolitics of Law and Conflict on the Korean Peninsula and Korean Legal System

in the Global Economy. He holds a B.A. from Seoul National University (1985) and a

J.D. from Columbia Law School (1988).

MARIE SHELDON

Brill/Nijhoff

As Publishing Director, International Law, at Brill/Nijhoff Ms. Sheldon has the

pleasure of collaborating with authors and editors from many parts of the world

working in various fields including international environmental law, law of the sea,

international investment and trade law and dispute resolution. During a sabbatical

from publishing she ventured into the hospitality and restaurant businesses along

with blueberry farming. In 2016 she was appointed to the position of President, Brill

USA.

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LUKE SHERMAN


Luke Sherman is the Conference Coordinator at the Law of the Sea Institute and

the Program Coordinator with the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at

UC Berkeley where he manages logistics, communications, and events, and provides

research assistance. Luke received his B.A. from UC Berkeley in 2015 majoring in

Political Economy.

JOAN WARGO


Joan Wargo is Deputy Director of the Center for Korean Legal Studies at Columbia

Law School. She holds a B.A. from St. Olaf College, and M.A. in Modern European

History from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a C.Phil. in Modern

European History from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has two

decades of experience as a fundraiser in university settings and in the fields of local

economic development and human services.

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