Genesis

The IPOS concept has been developed through international discussions to address this knowledge-decision gap.

Consortium

The Towards IPOS team, composed of the Ocean Sustainability Foundation, together with consortium of partners won the open call from the EU "Towards an IPOS". This initiative will bring together a diverse global network of leading ocean scientists, interdisciplinary experts, policy makers and civil society stakeholders in support for the establishment of the Towards IPOS initiative. A heartfelt thank you to our partners for embarking on this journey with us.

Interim governance

The Towards IPOS team has set up an interim governance until IPOS is created.

The governance is structured around:

• A Core team: the consortium

• An advisory board

• A Knowledge Committee development team

• A coalition of scientific institutions

• Strategic partners

Knowledge Committee Development Team

The provisional missions of the Knowledge Committee Development Team (KCDT) include advising on the governance structure of IPOS, specifically the role of the Knowledge Committee. The KCDT will also support networking by building a transdisciplinary, international network and help define the IPOS international experts panel.

Current members of the Knowledge Committee Development Team:

• Olusola ADEOYE (Nigeria) — Coast2DeepSea Initiative

• Kyana BOWEN (Trinidad and Tobago) — Executive Director, Global Compact Network Caribbean (UNGC)

• Mariana CLAUZET (Brazil) — Instituto Mar Adentro and UNIFESP

• Fabrizio D’ORTENZIO (Italy) — Oceanographer at the Laboratoire d'océanographie de Villefranche (CNRS/Sorbonne University)

• Matt FROST (United Kingdom) — Plymouth Marine Laboratory

• Nianzhi JIAO (China) — Xiamen University

• Amb. Nancy W. KARIGITHU (Kenya) — Government of Kenya

• Laura KHATIB (Lebanon) — ECOP Asia

• Abdennaji LAAMRICH (Morocco) — ATLAFCO

• Anthony NDAH (Cameroon) — Plymouth Marine Laboratory

• Jerneja PENCA (Slovenia) — Science and Research Centre Koper, Mediterranean Institute for Environmental Studies

• Markus REYMANN (Germany) — TBA21

• Samiya SELIM (Bangladesh) — ULAB

• Gerald SINGH (Canada) — University of Victoria

• Mia STRAND (South Africa and Norway) — Nelson Mandela University