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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

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.