Member	Role	Country
	Ward Appeltans UNESCO / IOC Project Office for IODE		Belgium
	Nina Wambiji Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, Headquarter & Mombasa Station		Kenya
	Leen Vandepitte Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee		Belgium
	Katsunori Fujikura Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka	Chair of Ad-hoc WG on the OBIS Name Change	Japan
	Patrick Halpin Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment		United States of America
	Ismaïla Ndour Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles		Senegal
	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
	Hina Saeed Baig National Institute of Oceanography, Karachi		Pakistan
	Christian Elloran ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity		Philippines
	Martha Vides Casado Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras José Benito Vives de Andreis		Colombia
	Dan Lear The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom		United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
	Abdolvahab Maghsoudlou Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science		Iran (Islamic Republic of)
	John Nicholls Trinity College Dublin, Centre for Environmental Humanities		Ireland
	Kuidong Xu Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao		China
	IZWANDY BIN IDRIS Institute of Oceanography and Environment		Malaysia
	Hanieh Saeedi Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung		Germany
	Dirhamsyah Dirhamsyah Pusat Penelitian Oseanografi. Lemabga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia		Indonesia