Member	Role	Country
	Francisco Chavez Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute		United States of America
	Kelly GOODWIN National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory		United States of America
	Ward Appeltans UNESCO / IOC Project Office for IODE		Belgium
	Fanny Douvere World Heritage-Marine Programme, UNESCO		France
	Pieter Provoost UNESCO / IOC Project Office for IODE		Belgium
	Vanessa Yepes-Narváez Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras José Benito Vives de Andreis		Colombia
	Pascal Hablützel Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee		Belgium
	Craig Sherman Deakin University		Australia
	Saara Suominen UNESCO / IOC Project Office for IODE		Belgium
	Nicolas Pade European Marine Biological Resource Center - France		France
	Sophie von der Heyden Stellenbosch University		South Africa
	Naiara Rodriguez-Ezpeleta AZTI		Spain
	Bruce Deagle Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation		Australia
	Ole Brodnicke University of Copenhagen, Department of Biology		Denmark
	Hugo Gante KU Leuven - Laboratory of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Genomics		Belgium