Speaker
Dr. Atsushi Sunami
President, Sasakawa Peace Foundation
9:15-9:55 JST | Registration |
10:00-11:00 JST | Opening Session Opening Remarks Dr. Atsushi Sunami, President, Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) Mr. Vidar Helgesen, Executive Secretary, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC/UNESCO) Keynote Address Mr. Julian Pierre Barbière, Head of Marine Policy and Regional Coordination IOC/UNESCO "Midway Milestones: Advancing the Goals of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030)" Remarks by the Guest of Honor Mr. Yohei Sasakawa, Honorary Chairman of SPF / The Nippon Foundation Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan(TBC) |
11:00-11:30 JST | Group Photo and Coffee Break |
11:30-12:30 JST | High-Level Roundtable with Ambassadors, Experts and Practitioners Theme: "Driving Ocean Leadership and Innovation: Advancing Governance, Blue Economy, and Marine Science to Achieve 30x30" Moderator: Atsushi Sunami, President, SPF Speakers (provisional): 1. H.E. Ms. Kristin Iglum, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of The Kingdom of Norway to Japan 2. Prof. Yutaka Michida, Chair, IOC-UNESCO 3. Dr. Saif Al Ghais, Chair, UNESCO-IOCINDIO sub-commission 4. Ms. Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Advisor, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bangladesh (Online) 5. H.E. Ms. Ilana V. Seid, Chair of AOSIS: Permanent Representative of Palau to the United Nations (Online) |
12:30-14:00 JST | Lunch Break |
14:00-15:00 JST | High-Level Roundtable with Principals of Foundations Theme: “Catalyzing Cross-Sector Collaboration: Mobilizing Private Foundations for Nature-Positive and Climate-Resilient Decade Action” Moderator: Ms. Alison Clausen, Programme Specialist, Marine Policy and Regional Coordination Section, IOC/UNESCO Speakers: 1. Ms. Malu Nunes, Executive Director, Boticário Group Foundation 2. Ms.Anna Marsden, Managing Director, Great Barrier Reef Foundation 3. Dr. Jyotika Virmani, Executive Director, Schmidt Ocean Institute 4. Ms. Kenza Khallafi , Executive Manager for Partnerships and International Cooperation and in charge of Ocean Decade projects, Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection |
15:00-15:15 JST | Coffee Break |
15:15-16:00 JST | Roundtable with solution example and community engagement Theme: "Asia-Pacific’s Vision for the Ocean Decade: Advancing Regional Action to Honor the Ocean as the Mother of Life" Moderator: Dr. Kotaro Tanaka, Research Fellow, OPRI, SPF Speakers: 1. Dr. Mitsutaku Makino, President, OPRI SPF 2. Dr. Arnab Das, Director, Maritime Research Center, India |
16:00-16:15 JST | Coffee Break |
16:15-17:00 JST | Ocean Literacy and Capacity Building Theme: “Transforming Ocean Knowledge into Action: Ocean Literacy and Capacity Building as a Foundation for the Ocean We Want” Moderator: Amb. Dr. Fabrizio Bozzato, Senior Research Fellow, Planning and Coordination Department, SPF Speakers: 1. Ms. Antonella Vassallo, Managing Director, International Ocean Institute (IOI) 2. Dr. Janaína Bumbeer, Project Manager, Boticário Group Foundation for Nature Protection 3. Ms. Sachiko Oguma – OPRI SPF |
17:00 JST | Closing Notes Atsushi Watanabe, Director, OPRI-SPF |
President, Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Executive Secretary, IOC-UNESCO
IOC programme specialist, head of section for Marine Policy and Regional Coordination in charge of the Integrated Coastal Area Management
Honorary Chairman of SPF / The Nippon Foundation
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of The Kingdom of Norway to Japan
The Chairperson, IOC-UNESCO
Managing Director, International Ocean Institute (IOI)