Member	Role	Country
	Ward Appeltans UNESCO / IOC Project Office for IODE		Belgium
	Nina Wambiji Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, Headquarter & Mombasa Station		Kenya
	Patrick Halpin Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment		United States of America
	Narayanane Saravanane Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India		India
	Aidy M Muslim Institute of Oceanography and Environment		Malaysia
	Abdolvahab Maghsoudlou Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science		Iran (Islamic Republic of)
	Pieter Provoost UNESCO / IOC Project Office for IODE		Belgium
	Carolina Peralta Brichtova Universidad Simon Bolivar		Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
	John Nicholls Trinity College Dublin, Centre for Environmental Humanities	Chair OBIS C&O Task Team	Ireland
	IZWANDY BIN IDRIS Institute of Oceanography and Environment		Malaysia
	Hanieh Saeedi Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung		Germany