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Carl Grainger

Legal Advisor, Legal Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ireland

Carl Grainger is a lawyer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ireland. He advises on a wide range of matters involving national law, EU law and public international law. He regularly represents Ireland at EU and UN level, in particular in law of the sea forums. He is a member of the EU team in the ongoing BBNJ negotiations, focusing on the area of capacity building and the transfer of marine technology. Previously he worked as a protection officer with UNHCR, as a judicial fellow with the Irish High Court and as a researcher with the School of Law at University College Dublin.
He holds an LLB in Law from the University of Durham, an LLM in Public International Law from University College London and a Barrister-at-Law Degree from King’s Inns. He was called to the Bar of Ireland in 2010.

Lowri Mai Griffiths

Head of the Maritime Policy Unit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, United Kingdom

Lowri Mai Griffiths is the Head of the Maritime Policy Unit at the Foreign and Commonwealth Unit. The work of the Maritime Policy Unit covers all aspects of the implementation and interpretation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, as well as other marine and maritime issues. Lowri is the Head of the UK delegation to the BBNJ Intergovernmental Conference. She is also a member of the UK delegation to the International Seabed Authority.

Prior to joining the Maritime Policy Unit, Lowri was a lawyer in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Legal Directorate, advising on issues relating to the UK’s Overseas Territories, including maritime boundary negotiations and marine management issues.

Kjell Kristian Egge

International Law Adviser of the Law of the Sea, Norwegian Foreign Ministry

Norwegian Career Diplomat since 1995. Have held different positions in the Legal Department of the Norwegian Ministry for Foreign Affairs since 2003, presently Deputy Director General. Have worked extensively on Law of the Sea and Arctic Issues, including heading Norwegian delegations to various United Nations and Arctic processes. Head of delegation to the UN BBNJ negotiations

Annekah Mason

International Seabed Authority (ISA)

Annekah Mason is a Jamaica national. She received her LLB from the University of London and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish and International Relations from the University of the West Indies. She is currently the Training Coordinator within Contract Management Unit of the International Seabed Authority. She is responsible for: managing, coordinating and performing all administrative duties for the implementation of training activities and programmes that are provided by Contractors (in accordance with their exploration contracts); the implementation of programmes under the ISA Endowment Fund for Marine Scientific Research and the implementation of ISA internship programmes.

Ms. Mason has worked in the diplomatic corps offering consular and administrative support to the
Government of Chile and Mexico for over five years. She is fluent in Spanish having previously worked in
Colombia.

Lisa Eurén Höglund

Deputy Director Department for International Law, Human Rights and Treaty, Law, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government Offices of Sweden

Lisa Eurén Höglund, deputy director at the Department for International Law, Human Rights and Treaty Law at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Ms. Eurén Höglund is the head of the Swedish Delegation to the Intergovernmental Conference on an international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, and has been actively engaged in the BBNJ process as representative of Sweden since 2012. Ms. Eurén Höglund is an experienced diplomat with experience from a broad range of foreign policy areas, including development cooperation, and fulfilled the Diplomatic Training Program of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 2004. Ms. Eurén Höglund has a law degree from Uppsala University and has studied international law at Université de Strasbourg Robert Schuman.

Yoshifumi Tanaka

Professor, University of Copenhagen

Yoshifumi Tanaka is Professor of International Law with specific focus on the law of the sea at the
Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and a member of Centre for Enterprise
Liability (CEVIA). He holds a DES and a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International Studies,
Geneva (currently the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva) and a
LLM from Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. He is the single author of four books, i.e. Predictability
and Flexibility in the Law of Maritime Delimitation (Hart 2006; 2 nd edn forthcoming), A Dual
Approach to Ocean Governance: The Cases of Zonal and Integrated Management in International
Law of the Sea (Ashgate, 2008), The International Law of the Sea (2 nd edition, Cambridge
University Press, 2015; 3 rd edn forthcoming), and The Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes
(Cambridge University Press, 2018). He has published widely in the fields of the law of the sea,
international environmental law and peaceful settlement of international disputes.

Robin Warner

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

Dr. Robin Warner is Professor, Deputy Director and Head of Postgraduate Studies at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong, Australia. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the Oceans Coasts and Coral Reefs Specialist Group of the
IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law. Her research interests include law of the sea, oceans governance, marine environmental law and climate law. She is the author of more than 80 publications on ocean law and policy including Protecting the Oceans beyond National Jurisdiction: Strengthening the International Law Framework (Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden, 2009).

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