| Country | Institution/Organization: | Job Title: | Gender: | CHALLENGE 1: Understand and map land and sea-based sources of pollutants and contaminants and their potential impacts on human health and ocean ecosystems and develop solutions to remove or mitigate them. | CHALLENGE 2: Understand the effects of multiple stressors on ocean ecosystems, and develop solutions to monitor, protect, manage and restore ecosystems and their biodiversity under changing environmental, social and climate conditions. | CHALLENGE 3: Generate knowledge, support innovation, and develop solutions to optimise the role of the ocean in sustainably feeding the world’s population under changing environmental, social and climate conditions. | CHALLENGE 4: Generate knowledge, support innovation, and develop solutions for equitable and sustainable development of the ocean economy under changing environmental, social and climate conditions. | CHALLENGE 5: Enhance understanding of the ocean-climate nexus and generate knowledge and solutions to mitigate, adapt and build resilience to the effects of climate change across all geographies and at all scales, and to improve services including predictions for the ocean, climate and weather. | CHALLENGE 6: Enhance multi-hazard early warning services for all geophysical, ecological, biological, weather, climate and anthropogenic related ocean and coastal hazards, and mainstream community preparedness and resilience. | CHALLENGE 7: Ensure a sustainable ocean observing system across all ocean basins that delivers accessible, timely, and actionable data and information to all users. | CHALLENGE 8: Through multi-stakeholder collaboration, develop a comprehensive digital representation of the ocean, including a dynamic ocean map, which provides free and open access for exploring, discovering, and visualizing past, current, and future ocean conditions in a manner relevant to diverse stakeholders. | CHALLENGE 9: Ensure comprehensive capacity development and equitable access to data, information, knowledge and technology across all aspects of ocean science and for all stakeholders. | CHALLENGE 10: Ensure that the multiple values and services of the ocean for human wellbeing, culture, and sustainable development are widely understood, and identify and overcome barriers to behaviour change required for a step change in humanity’s relationship with the ocean. |
| Chile | Directorate of Maritime Interest and Aquatic Environment | Head Department Aquatic Environment Protection, Pollution Response and Climate Change | male | Essential | Very Important | Of Some Importance | Of Some Importance | Very Important | Essential | Very Important | Not Important | Of Some Importance | Of Some Importance |
| Colombia | Colombian Ocean Commission | Executive Secretary and Antarctic Program Director | Male | Of Some Importance | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | Essential | Essential | Essential | Very Important | Essential | Very Important |
| Ecuador | INSTITUTO OCEANOGRAFICO Y ANTARTICO DE LA ARMADA | INVESTIGADOR OCEANOGRAFICO | FEMALE | Very Important | Essential | Essential | Of Some Importance | Essential | Essential | Essential | Of Some Importance | Essential | Very Important |
| Ecuatorial Guinea | Ministry of Fisheries and Water Resources | Geological engineer | Female | Not Important | Not Important | Not Important | Not Important | Not Necessary | Not Necessary | Not Necessary | Not Important | Not Necessary | Not Necessary |
| Egypt | National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries | Prof. of Marine Pollution | Female | Essential | Essential | Very Important | Essential | Essential | Essential | Very Important | Essential | Essential | Essential |
| Estonia | Ministry of the Environment | Adviser | Female | Essential | Very Important | Essential | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important |
| France | Ministère de la Transition Ecologique et de la Cohésion des Territoires | Secrétariat du Comité national français pour la COI | Female | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | Of Some Importance | Of Some Importance | Very Important | Of Some Importance | Not Important | Very Important | Very Important |
| Ghana | Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) -Water Research Institute | Director | Male | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Of Some Importance | Very Important | Not Important | Not Necessary | Of Some Importance | Not Important |
| Honduras | National Center of Atmospheric, Ocanic and Seismic Studies | Director | Male | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Very Important | Essential | Essential | Very Important |
| India | INCOIS | Director | Male | Of Some Importance | Of Some Importance | Not Important | Of Some Importance | Not Necessary | Not Necessary | Not Necessary | Not Necessary | Not Necessary | Not Important |
| Japan | Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) | Director for Deep Sea-Earth Scientific Research | Male | Essential | Essential | Of Some Importance | Of Some Importance | Essential | Essential | Of Some Importance | Of Some Importance | Of Some Importance | Of Some Importance |
| Kuwait | Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research | Principal Research Scentist | Female | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Very Important | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential |
| Myanmar | Department of Meteorology and Hydrology | Deputy Director | Male | Very Important | Very Important | Very Important | Of Some Importance | Very Important | Essential | Very Important | Of Some Importance | Essential | Of Some Importance |
| Poland | Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences | Deputy Director for Reserch | male | Essential | Of Some Importance | Not Important | Not Important | Very Important | Of Some Importance | Very Important | Not Important | Of Some Importance | Not Important |
| Tanzania, United Republic of, | Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam | Professor | Male | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential |
| Venezuela | Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC) | Research Staff | Female | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Very Important | Essential | Very Important | Essential | Essential | Essential |