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Clive Schofield

Head of Research, Global Ocean Institute, World Maritime University

Professor Clive Schofield is Head of Research at the Global Ocean Institute, World Maritime University in Malmö, Sweden and is a Visiting Professor with the Australian Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia, is a Distinguished Fellow of the Law of the Sea Institute at the Law School of the University of California Berkeley and teaches on the Law of the Sea programme at Harvard Law School. His research interests relate to international boundaries and particularly maritime boundary delimitation and marine jurisdictional issues on which he has published over 200 scholarly publications.

Clive is an International Hydrographic Office (IHO)-nominated Observer 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 actively involved in the peaceful settlement of boundary and territory disputes by providing advice to governments engaged in boundary negotiations and in dispute settlement.

Rena Lee

President of the Intergovernmental Conference on BBNJ
Government of Singapore

Biliana Cicin-Sain

President and Chair, International Board of Directors Global Ocean Forum

Dr. Biliana Cicin-Sain (PhD in political science, UCLA, postdoctoral training, Harvard University) is President of the Global Ocean Forum, and past Director of the Gerard J. Mangone Center for Marine Policy and Professor of Marine Policy at the University of Delaware. An expert in the field of integrated coastal and ocean governance, she has authored over 100 publications in the field, and has forged international collaboration among all sectors of the international oceans community to advance the global oceans agenda, as founder and president of the Global Ocean Forum.

Dr. Cicin-Sain’s international ocean work has been recognized through a number of awards, including: 2018 Pioneer of the High Seas, French National Sea Center, France; 2017 Champion of the Ocean award,  Monmouth University; 2010 Laureate for the Elizabeth Haub Award for Environmental Diplomacy; 2010 honorary doctorate in maritime law by Korea Maritime University; 2007 Coastal Zone Foundation Award, USA; 2007 Elizabeth Mann Borgese Meerespreis, Germany; 2002 co-recipient of the Ocean and Coastal Stewardship Award (US). In 2019, Dr. Cicin-Sain will be receiving the Prince Albert I of Monaco “Grand Prix des Sciences de la Mer.” Dr. Cicin-Sain has been active in the UN negotiations on biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction since 2004. Most recently, Dr. Cicin-Sain has led the mobilization of multi-stakeholder analyses on capacity development regarding Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction ( https://bit.ly/2C0FuvD) and the Roadmap to Oceans and Climate Action initiative to advance the issues related to oceans and climate within the UN Framework on Climate Change and other relevant international fora.

Marie Jacobsson

Ambassador
Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden

Ambassador Marie Jacobsson is the Principal Legal Adviser on International Law at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. She was a Member of the UN International Law Commission (ILC) from 2007-2016 and appointed Special Rapporteur for the topic, Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflicts in 2013. Jacobsson has served at the Legal Department of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs since 1987. Before that, she held a position at the Swedish Defence Staff as adviser on security policy matters. In 2016 she was appointed Special Representative for Inclusive Peace Process. Her present assignments include designation as arbitrator under Permanent Court of Arbitration, UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty and as alternate Arbitrator, Court of Conciliation and Arbitration within the OSCE.  

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