Scientific Advisor, Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory; Founder and Director, SpeSeas

Executive Director, UN Environment Programme

Chairman of the Board of Directors, Ørsted, Denmark, and Lloyd’s Register

Chairman and CEO, Salesforce

Director, Public Affairs and Sustainability, Stena

Race Chairman, The Ocean Race

Director of Environment, Climate Change and Ocean, Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Co-Facilitator, UNFCCC Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue

President and CEO of the United Nations Foundation

Co-Founder of Leading Women for the Ocean; senior advisor on ocean, climate change and blue economy

President and CEO, World Resources Institute

Director, Marine Environment Division, International Maritime Organization (IMO)

Director, Coral Research and Development Accelerator Platform, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

President and Chairman, Mission Blue

CEO and Chair, Global Environment Facility (GEF)

Director, Global Marine and Polar Programme, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Former President of the Seychelles and African Union Champion on the Blue Economy

Founder and CEO, Sustainable Ocean Alliance (SOA)

Chairman, Minderoo Foundation

Co-Founder and Director, Planeta Océano

Executive Director, Oceans 5

CEO, Gulf International Bank (GIB) Asset Management, UK

Editorial Director and Executive Director of World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Group

Former Minister of State for Overseas Territories, Commonwealth, Energy, Climate and Environment, House of Lords, UK

Executive Director, Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA)

Olympic diving champion; Ambassador, Key Connect; Ocean Program Director, Global Green Technology Center (GGTC)

CEO, Ocean Wise

Founder and CEO, Seafood Legacy

Special Envoy, Ocean, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway and Co-Chair, High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy

CEO and Chairman, Vulcan Inc.

CEO, Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)

Professor and Director, Center for Global Commons, University of Tokyo

CEO, REV Ocean

Special Envoy, WWF International

President Emeritus, Jacques Delors Institute

Co-Director, Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University

Dean, Academy of Future Ocean and Innovation, Ocean University of China

CEO, Global Fishing Watch

Founder and Director, North Atlantic Seafood Forum (NASF)

Managing Director, Great Barrier Reef Foundation

Senior Adviser, Iceland Ocean Cluster; Chairman of the Board, Better Transport

CEO, HUB Ocean

Professor, University of California Santa Barbara; Director, Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory

President and Director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Director-General, Pacific Community (SPC)

Prince of Monaco

CEO, The Nature Conservancy

Regenerative Blue Economy, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

President, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN); Managing Director, Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund

Vice-Chairman, GITI Group

Founding Director, Coastal Oceans Research and Development in the Indian Ocean (CORDIO)

CEO and Executive Director, UN Global Compact

Executive Director, Monterey Bay Aquarium

Executive Director, Ocean & Climate Platform

CEO, Oceano Azul Foundation

Chief of Staff, United Nations Climate Action Team

Deputy Director, First Institute of Oceanography

Co-Founder and Co-Chair, CVC

Head, Marine and Fresh Water Unit, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

President, Institut Océanique Paul Ricard

Executive Secretary, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, and Assistant Director General, UNESCO

Executive Director, Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA)

CEO, Conservation International

Director-General, WWF International

Ambassador of Palau to the UN and Co-Chair High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy

Founder and Chairman of Yintai Group; Board Member of The Paradise International Foundation

President, Bezos Earth Fund

Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Professor of Oceanography, Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Director, Fisheries Economics Research Unit, University of British Columbia

President, Sasakawa Peace Foundation and Ocean Policy Research Institute

CEO, Fauna & Flora

Executive Director, Schmidt Ocean Institute

Founder and Executive Director, Oceanswell

Founder and President, Qingdao Marine Conservation Society

Chief Sustainability Officer, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines

Vice-Chair, UN Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP)

Director of Science and Deputy Chief Executive, Plymouth Marine Laboratory

Director, Council and Trade Negotiations Committee Division, World Trade Organization

Pro-Rector, Research and Development at UiT The Arctic University of Norway