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Scientific & Policy Committee Members

(Term of Office:From 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2027)

Hiroshi Kawai Specially Appointed Professor, Kobe University (Japan)
Tomoya Shibayama Professor, Research and Development Initiative, Chuo University (Japan) 
Jing Zhan Director of Northwest Pacific Region Environmental Cooperation Center (NPEC) / Professor of Graduate School of Science and Engineering Toyama University (Japan)
Shigeo Fujii Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University (Japan)
Kaori Fujita Professor, Department of Applied Sociology, Kindai University (Japan)
Tateki Fujiwara Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University (Japan)
Yoshiyuki Nakamura Director, Ocean Enviroment Research Organization (Japan)
Kuninao Tada Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University (Japan)
Kazumi Wakita Professor, School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokai University (Japan)
Masataka Watanabe Professor, Research and Development Initiative, Chuo University (Japan)
Suchana Apple Chavanich Professor, Chulalongkorn University (Thailand)
Zhongyuan Chen State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University (China)
Michael Elliott Emeritus Professor, University of Hull / Co-Editor-in-Chief, Estuarine Coastal & Shelf Science / Director, International Estuarine & Coastal Specialists Ltd. (UK)
David Nemazie Chief of Staff, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (USA)
Erdal Özhan President, Mediterranean Coastal Foundation, (MEDCOAST)  (Turkey)
Narasimmalu Rajendran Former Scientific Consultant, Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India (India)
Michael Chiarappa Research Professor and Director of Natural & Cultural Resources, Washington College’s Center for Environment & Society (USA) 
Robert Summers Senior Research Scientist, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science /  Lecturer, Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering (USA)
Ivica Trumbic Consultant, UNESCO-IHP (Croatia)
Olli Varis Professor, Aalto University (Finland)
Eric Wolanski             Professor, James Cook University (Australia)
Jose Paulo Soares de Azevedo Associate Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Godhantaraman Nallamuthu Academic Consultant Indian Maritime University, Former Director, UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, University of Madras (India)
Yimnang Golbuu Coral Resilience Director, The Nature Conservancy for Micronesia (Palau)
Patrick Prouzet President, The French-Japanese Society of Oceanography (France)
Angel Borja Principal Researcher, AZTI (Spain)