Our Ocean 2015 Conference Agenda
Monday, October 5, 2015
07:45
REGISTRATION
09:00 - 10:00
OPENING CEREMONY
Presenter: Leonor Varela
Remarks by Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Heraldo Muñoz
Remarks by Secretary of State of the United States, John F. Kerry
Video message from H.E. President of the United States, Barack Obama
Welcome and remarks by H.E. President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet
Signature of Chilean Commitments
10:00 to 10:05
Special Greeting by Sir Richard Branson
10:05 to 10:15
Break
10:15 to 11:25
MARINE PROTECTED AREAS PANEL
Moderator: Pablo Badenier, Minister of Environment of Chile
Josh Reichert, Executive Vice-President and Managing Director, Environment Initiatives, The Pew
Charitable Trusts
Enric Sala, Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic Society
George Watters, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States
Pedro Edmunds Paoa, Mayor of Easter Island, Chile
Dona Bertarelli, Co-President, Bertarelli Foundation
Announcements from the audience
11:25 to 11:50
Coffee Break
11:50 to 13:00
OCEAN ACIDIFICATION PANEL
Moderator: Yolanda Kakabadse, President, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Anne Cohen, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), United States
Rodrigo Torres, Centro de Investigación en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia, Chile
Jean-Pierre Gattuso, National Center for Scientific Research, France
Video message by Sigourney Weaver, Actress, environmental activist, United States
Christy Goldfuss, Managing Director at the White House Council on Environmental Quality of the
United States
Fang Jianmeng, Deputy Administrator, State Oceanic Administration of People’s Republic of China
Announcements from the audience
13:15 to 14:45
Lunch
14:45 to 16:00
MARINE POLLUTION PANEL
Moderator: José María Figueres, Co-Chair, Global Ocean Commission
Catherine Novelli, Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment,
Department of State of the United States
Jenna Jambeck, University of Georgia, United States
Aldo Arias, Chief Executive Officer, Fromm Latin America
Belen Fernández Mayor of Dagupan City, Philippines
David M. Stover, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bureo
Marco Simeoni, Race for Water Foundation
Justin Mundy, Director of the Prince of Wales’ International Sustainability Unit, United Kingdom
Announcements from the audience
16:00 to 16:15
Break
16:15 to 17:25
HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT – PART I
Moderator: Alicia Bárcena, Executive Director, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin
America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Heraldo Muñoz, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile
John F. Kerry, Secretary of State of the United States
Prince Albert II of Monaco
Manuel González, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica
Tone Skogen, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway
José Graziano da Silva, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations (FAO)
Karmenu Vella, Commissioner for the Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries of the European
Union
17:25 to 17:50
Coffee Break
17:50 to 19:00
HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT – PART II
Moderator: Lisa Speer, Director, International Oceans Program, Natural Resources Defense
Council (NRDC)
Antonio Bells, Vice-President of Palau
Ricardo Patiño, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility of Ecuador
Nick Smith, Minister of Environment of New Zealand
Gabriel Ntchango Minister of Fisheries of Gabon
Sigurour Ingi Johannsson, Minister of Fisheries of Iceland
Manuel Pinto de Abreu, Secretary of State of the Sea of Portugal
Demetrio L. Ignacio Jr., Under Secretary for Field Operations, Department of Environment and
Natural Resources of Philippines
19:00
Reception hosted by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Heraldo Muñoz, in honor of the
participants.
Our Ocean 2015 Conference Agenda
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
07:45
REGISTRATION
09:00 to 10:00
OCEAN CHAMPIONS PANEL
Moderator: Andrew Sharpless, Chief Executive Officer, Oceana
Video message by H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, United Kingdom
David Rockefeller Jr., Sailors for the Sea
Leonor Varela, Actress, Environmental Activist, Chile
Antha Williams, Head of Environment Program, The Bloomberg Foundation
J. Charles Fox, Director of Oceans 5
Anne Earhart, Chairman, Marisla Foundation
Announcements from the audience
10:00 to 10:05
Break
10:05 to 11:05
SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES PANEL
Moderator: Raúl Súnico, Under Secretary of Fisheries of Chile
Joao Aguiar Machado, Director General, DG MARE, European Commission
Renato Quiñones, Universidad de Concepción, Chile
Campbell Davies, Pelagic Predator Ecology and Dynamics Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organization, Australia
Max Agüero, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile
Announcements from the audience
11:05 to 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 to 12:30
LOCAL COMMUNITIES PANEL
Moderator: Ambassador Shane Jones, Representative of the Maori community, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and Trade of New Zealand
Felipe Paredes, Mayor of Juan Fernandez, Chile
Tiffany Laitame, Representative of Municipality of Rapa, French Polynesia
Shelley Campbell, Chief Executive Officer of Sir Peter Blake Trust, New Zealand
Cherry Ravelo-Salazar, Agricultural Technologist, Global Initiative Fish Forever
Announcements from the audience
12:30 to 12:35
Break
12:35 to 13:35
REGIONAL HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT
Arnold J. Nicholson, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jamaica
Mirei Endara, Minister of Environment of Panama
Carlos Castaneda, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador
Martha Garciarivas Palmeros, Under Secretary for Environmental Protection Management of
México
José Luis Samaniego, Director of Environment, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin
America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
13:35 to 15:30
Lunch
15:30 to 16:45
OCEAN GOVERNANCE PANEL
Moderator: Ambassador David A. Balton, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Fisheries,
Department of State of the United States
Andrés Couve, Vice-President of the United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement Conference (New
York Agreement), Chile
Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli, Director of the United Nations Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of
the Sea
William Mansfield, former Chairperson of the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management
Organisation (SPRFMO)
Osvaldo Urrutia, Director of Law of the Sea Institute, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso,
Chile
Discussion
16:45 to 16:50
CLOSING
Remarks by Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Heraldo Muñoz