International Board for the Antarctic Treaty Summit

CHILE

DR. JOSÉ RETAMALES

Director
Instituto Antártico Chileno
Plaza Muñoz Gamero 1055, Punta Arenas, CHILE

Chair, Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs.

GERMANY

JUDGE RÜDIGER WOLFRUM

Director and Professor
Max Plack Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Im Neuenheimer Feld 535, 69120 Heidelberg, GERMANY

Current Member and Former President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

MALAYSIA

PROF. A.H. ZAKRI

Director
Centre on Global Sustainability Studies
Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Pulau Pinang, MALAYSIA

Former Director, United Nations University - Institute of Advanced Studies; Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia, Academy of Sciences of the Developing World (TWAS), Islamic World Academy of Sciences and newly-elected member of the Executive Board of the International Council of Science (ICSU).

NEW ZEALAND

DR. MAJ DE POORTER

Centre for Biodiversity and Biosecurity, University of Auckland, Tamaki Campus
Private Bag 92019, Auckland, NEW ZEALAND

Chair, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Antarctic Advisory Committee. Coordinator, Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) of the IUCN Species Survival Commission.

REPUBLIC OF SOUTH KOREA

DR. YEADONG KIM

Emeritus Director
Korean Polar Research Institute (KOPRI)
Sondo Technopark, Songdo-dong, Incheon, REPUBLIC OF KOREA

First Director of KOPRI. First Chair of the Asian Forum for Polar Science. Korean representative to the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs 1989 – present.

SWEDEN

DR. MARIE JACOBSSON

Principal Legal Adviser on International Law
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Department for International Law, Human Rights and Treaty Law

SE-103 39 Stockholm, SWEDEN

Elected by the United Nations General Assembly on 16 November 2006 to serve as a member of the UN International Law Commission as the first Swedish member since 1961and the third woman ever to serve in this capacity.

UNITED KINGDOM

PROF. PAUL BERKMAN (CHAIR)

Head, Arctic Ocean Geopolitics Programme
Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1ER, UNITED KINGDOM

Fulbright Distinguished Scholar and Research Professor
Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5131, UNITED STATES

Recipient of the Antarctic Service Medal (winter-over) from the United States Congress and of fellowships from the: National Science Foundation; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology); Ministry of Science, Education and Culture in Japan (National Institute of Polar Research); Ohio State University (Byrd Polar Research Center); and University of Canterbury in New Zealand (Gateway Antarctica).

PROF. DAVID WALTON (VICE-CHAIR)

Emeritus Fellow
British Antarctic Survey
High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UNITED KINGDOM

Former head of the SCAR delegation to the ATCM from 1992 – 2006. Former Chair, SCAR Group of Specialists of Environmental Affairs and Conservation. First recipient of the SCAR Medal for International Scientific Coordination.

UNITED STATES

MR. MICHAEL LANG

Director, Smithsonian Marine Science Network
Office of the Under Secretary for Science
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 20013 UNITED STATES

Director, Smithsonian Scientific Diving program.

PROF. ORAN YOUNG

Professor, Environmental Institutions
Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5131, UNITED STATES

Chair, Scientific Committee of the International Human Dimensions Program on Global Environmental Change.