Member	Role	Country
	Ward Appeltans UNESCO / IOC Project Office for IODE		Belgium
	Nina Wambiji Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, Headquarter & Mombasa Station		Kenya
	Abby Benson U.S. Geological Survey HQ		United States of America
	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		Ireland
	Kuidong Xu Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao		China
	Yi Ming Gan Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen	Chair of OBIS Data Quality Control project team	Belgium
	Hanieh Saeedi Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung		Germany
	Johnny Konjarla Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India		India
	Ruben Perez Perez Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee		Belgium
	Georgia Sarafidou Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture		Greece
	Elizabeth Lawrence UNESCO / IOC Project Office for IODE		Belgium