Executive Planning Group
The Executive Planning Group (EPG) is an expert group composed of 16 to 20 members who will serve as an advisory body to the IOC governing bodies to support the development of the Implementation Plan as well as the preparatory activities of the Decade.
They were nominated through an open call for nominations and serve in their personal capacity.
The EPG will meet at least twice during its term, once during each of the IOC intersessional periods 2018鈥19 and 2019鈥20. The summaries of these meetings will be made available on the Decade website. The first meeting is scheduled between 17 and 19 December 2018 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France.
The IOC Secretariat will provide administrative, technical and editorial support as required by the Planning Group. Each year, starting in 2019, the EPG will submit a report of its activities to the IOC governing bodies, the United Nations General Assembly, as well as to UN-Oceans.
The EPG and its membership is appointed for the duration of the work with the Implementation Plan and is not anticipated to be active beyond 2020, after the presentation of the Implementation Plan to the United Nations General Assembly for consideration during its 75th session.
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Director General, Institute for Marine and Coastal Research, Colombia
Institute of Marine Sciences and Limnology, Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de Mexico, Mexico
Senior Research Scientist, Oceans and Atmosphere, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia
Senior High Seas Advisor, Global Marine and Polar Programme, IUCN
Director, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, Science Affairs Department, Sweden
President, National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Egypt
Manager, Ocean Affairs, Pacific Community, Fiji
Professor/Principal Research Scientist, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/Vice Chancellor, University of California-San Diego, United States
Director, National Institute of Ocean Technology, India/Chair, IOCINDIO (UNESCO)
Assistant Administrator, National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration, United States
Global Ocean Lead Scientist, World Wide Fund for Nature/International Chair of Excellence, European Institute for Marine Studies, Brest, France.
First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, People's Republic of China
Member of the European Parliament, Portugal
Head, Center for Coordination of Ocean Research, Russian Federation
Director, Department of Science and Technology, South Africa
Emeritus Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan
Head, Research Unit 鈥淧hysical Oceanography鈥, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel University, Germany
Manager, NOAA National Weather Service Caribbean Tsunami Warning Program, Puerto Rico