Representatives of Organization/Company/Institution
| Country | Institution | Your Position | Gender | Improved staffing of secretariat of regional sub-commissions | Other suggestions? | Reinforced budgeting of regional sub-commissions | Other suggestions? | Establishing an effective coordination and communication mechanism between the regional sub-commissions | Other suggestions? | Establishing an effective coordination and communication mechanism between the regional sub-commissions and the global programmes | Other suggestions? | Establishing an effective coordination and communication mechanism between countries not covered by IOC regional subsidiary bodies and the global programmes | Other suggestions? |
| Argentina | Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera (CIMA/CONICET-UBA) and French-Argentinean Institute for the Study of Climate and its Impacts (CNRS-IRD-CONICET-UBA) | Director | Female | ||||||||||
| Bangladesh | Fisheries & Marine Resource Technology Discipline, Khulna University | Professor & Head | Male | Essential | Essential | Very Important | Very Important | Essential | |||||
| Brazil | IVIDES.org | Chairwoman | Female | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | |||||
| Brazil | UFRJ | Full Professor | Male | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | |||||
| Brazil | faho@lamce.coppe.ufrj.br | Researcher | Male | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | |||||
| Chile | Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile | Full Professor | Male | Very Important | Essential | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | |||||
| Costa Rica | University of Costa Rica | Asociate Profesor | Female | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | Essential | |||||
| Côte D’Ivoire | Nangui Abrogoua University of Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire) | Teacher – researcher | Male | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | Of Some Importance | |||||
| Ecuador | ESPOL | DEAN OF MARITIME ENGINEERING AND MARINE SCIENCES FACULTY | Female | Essential | Coordination has to go deeper in each country beyond the national representatives to IOC, because sometimes they may have limited knowledge of what is going inside the country | Very Important | It is more a matter of coordination and networking than budget. However, small budget to foster small research grants for young graduates is very important. Amounts of ten thousand dollars to recipients in several countries to work on a common purpose is important; for example on hazardous algae blooms, or selected ocean acidification sites, or coastal erosion/sedimentation protection could build up research capacity, enhance networking and better serves countries, considering than over 60% of the global population is living in coastal cities | Essential | Subregional commissions must talk to end-users, policy makers. Awareness of the importance of the ocean is lacking: ocean literacy is desperately needed. | Essential | There are two groups, the government representative and the rest, and I strongly believe that we have to look for ways to integrated communication among them | Essential | |
| Egypt | National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries | Researcher doctor in marine chemistry department | Female | ||||||||||
| Egypt | National Institute of Oceanography and Fishereis | Doctor researcher | Male | Very Important | Very Important | Of Some Importance | Of Some Importance | Essential | |||||
| Egypt | Housing and Building National Research Center | Associate professor | Male | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Very Important | |||||
| Egypt | Housing and Building National Research Center | Associate professor | Male | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | |||||
| Guatemala | Centro de Estudios del Mar y Acuicultura | Assitant professor | Male | I don’t know | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | |||||
| India | MARS Practitioners Network | Facilitator and Tech Advisor (DPRR n SDGs) | Male | ||||||||||
| India | Physical Research Laboratory | Senior Scientist | Male | ||||||||||
| Indonesia | Universitas Negeri Makassar | Lecturer and researcher | Male | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | |||||
| Indonesia | Institut Teknologi Bandung | Lecturer/Researcher | Female | Essential | Communication for colaboration | Very Important | Very Important | Essential | Very Important | ||||
| Iraq | Marine Science Centre University if Basrah | Professor | Male | Very Important | Very Important | Essential | Essential | Essential | |||||
| Malaysia | University of Malaya | Associate Professor | Male | Very Important | Very Important | Essential | Essential | Essential | |||||
| Malaysia | Universiti Teknologi MARA | Senior Lecturer | Male | ||||||||||
| Mexico | Centro de Investigación para los Recursos Naturales (CIReNa-DGETAyCM) | CIReNa´s Director | Female | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | |||||
| Mexico | SECRETARIA DE EDUCACION PUBLICA | DOCENTE | Female | Very Important | Of Some Importance | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | |||||
| Mexico | Universidad Autónoma del Carmen | Professor | Female | ||||||||||
| Nigeria | National water resources institute. Kaduna | Senior technologist | Female | Of Some Importance | Essential | Very Important | Very Important | Essential | |||||
| Pakistan | Bahria University | Assistant Professor | Female | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | |||||
| Panama | Universidad de Panama | Profesor | Male | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | |||||
| Panama | smithsonian tropical research institute | director, physical monitoring program | Male | Not Necessary | I don’t know | Very Important | Very Important | I don’t know | |||||
| Philippines | Misamis University | Director, MUCEP | Female | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | |||||
| Philippines | De La Salle Lipa | Faculty/ICM Focal Person | Female | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | |||||
| Philippines | Samar State University-College of Fisheries and Marine Sciences, Catbalogan City Philippines | Associate Professor/Head Research and Development | Male | Very Important | strengthening WESTPAC member countries on data sharing | Very Important | equal opportunity funding to budding university for ocean science | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | |||
| Sri Lanka | The Ocean University of Sri Lanka | Senior Lecturer | Male | Essential | Very Important | Of Some Importance | Very Important | Very Important | |||||
| Thailand | Chulalongkorn University | Researcher | Female | Of Some Importance | Of Some Importance | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | |||||
| Trinidad and Tobago | The Department of Geomatics Engineering and Land Management, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago | Professor of Urban and Regional Planning | Female | ||||||||||
| Tunisia | Ministére d’Agriculture et de peche tunisie | technicien supérieure | Female |