Representatives of Organization/Company/Institution
| Country | Institution | Your Position | Gender | What other specific support can IOC global and regional programmes (GOOS, IODE, MPR, tsunami, etc.) provide to contribute to addressing your country’s CD requirements? |
| 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 | Ocean research needs lot of dedication and motivation. We are facing difficulties to motivating students for ocean research due to lack of relevent job opportunity in our country. Its important to increase motivational programs. |
| Brazil | IVIDES.org | Chairwoman | Female | |
| Brazil | UFRJ | Full Professor | Male | Support Young Students from Tradional Populations |
| Brazil | faho@lamce.coppe.ufrj.br | Researcher | Male | . |
| Chile | Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile | Full Professor | Male | |
| Costa Rica | University of Costa Rica | Asociate Profesor | Female | |
| Côte D’Ivoire | Nangui Abrogoua University of Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire) | Teacher – researcher | Male | These global and regional programs can help us train competent and qualified personnel for the observation, maintenance of measuring devices and analysis of oceanographic data |
| Ecuador | ESPOL | DEAN OF MARITIME ENGINEERING AND MARINE SCIENCES FACULTY | Female | I believe this survey has asked all the right questions!. We may need to give more visibility to the ocean experts registration. |
| Egypt | National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries | Researcher doctor in marine chemistry department | Female | |
| Egypt | National Institute of Oceanography and Fishereis | Doctor researcher | Male | Nothing, thank you |
| Egypt | Housing and Building National Research Center | Associate professor | Male | Training, conferences and supporting programs |
| Egypt | Housing and Building National Research Center | Associate professor | Male | Training, conferences and workshops, student transfer programs |
| Guatemala | Centro de Estudios del Mar y Acuicultura | Assitant professor | Male | Fundings |
| 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 | Cooperation in research and learning, and research funding |
| Indonesia | Institut Teknologi Bandung | Lecturer/Researcher | Female | |
| Iraq | Marine Science Centre University if Basrah | Professor | Male | It is necessary to cojoin the local centre with one Data network |
| Malaysia | University of Malaya | Associate Professor | Male | CD at the regional level (eg. IOC WESTPAC) should be established and included in long term planning, rather than running at an ad-hoc basis |
| Malaysia | Universiti Teknologi MARA | Senior Lecturer | Male | |
| Mexico | Centro de Investigación para los Recursos Naturales (CIReNa-DGETAyCM) | CIReNa´s Director | Female | I don’t know |
| Mexico | SECRETARIA DE EDUCACION PUBLICA | DOCENTE | Female | |
| Mexico | Universidad Autónoma del Carmen | Professor | Female | |
| Nigeria | National water resources institute. Kaduna | Senior technologist | Female | By having capacity development and training programmes for upcoming and new oceanographers |
| Pakistan | Bahria University | Assistant Professor | Female | research funding from international donors for Pakistani Marine science university department is essential to enrol more students and scientists in marine programs/research. |
| Panama | Universidad de Panama | Profesor | Male | good |
| Panama | smithsonian tropical research institute | director, physical monitoring program | Male | |
| Philippines | Misamis University | Director, MUCEP | Female | Research and policy making capacity development to local government units and policy makers |
| Philippines | De La Salle Lipa | Faculty/ICM Focal Person | Female | Disaster Risk Reduction and Management |
| Philippines | Samar State University-College of Fisheries and Marine Sciences, Catbalogan City Philippines | Associate Professor/Head Research and Development | Male | HAB support for shellfish industry |
| Sri Lanka | The Ocean University of Sri Lanka | Senior Lecturer | Male | no |
| Thailand | Chulalongkorn University | Researcher | Female | |
| 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 |