The EBCD Board of Directors is comprised of:
Despina SYMONS (DS)
Director
Lars WALLOE
Administrator
Lars Walløe was born in Oslo in 1938, studied medicine in Oslo and has also a Ph.D. in physical chemistry.
Lars Walløe is Professor of Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Oslo where he has previously also been professor of applied statistics and cybernetics. He has also been part-time Research Director at the Institute of Marine Research in Bergen and part-time Professor at the Department of Arctic Biology at the University of Tromsø. His current research is in the field of cardiovascular control mechanisms in man and in other large mammals, and he has developed non-invasive ultrasound instruments for such studies, but he has also published on neuronal nets, statistical methodology, historical demography, population biology, and reproductive epidemiology.
Professor Walløe is Scientific Adviser to the Norwegian Government on Marine Mammals. He has been President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Chairman of the Norwegian Population Panel, Director of the Norwegian research program on acid rain, Chairman of the Norwegian Research Board for Environment and Development and Chairman of the Standing Committee for Life and Environmental Sciences of the European Science Foundation.
Dr. Serge Michel GARCIA
Administrator
Dr. Serge Michel GARCIA holds a ScD (Doctorat in Sciences) of the Marseille University (France, 1976) with an initial specialisation in shrimp population dynamics and tropical fisheries management.
He worked in West Africa from 1968 to 1979 (for the French Institute of Research for Development, IRD (formerly ORSTOM) and headed the national Oceanographic Research Centre (CRODT) of Dakar-Thiaroye (Senegal, 1976-79). He joined the FAO Fisheries Department in 1979 as Responsible for West African Fisheries Resources. He headed the Marine Resources Service of this organisation from 1984 to 1990 and has been the Director of the Fisheries Resources Division (then Fishery Management Division) dealing with inland and marine fisheries resources and environments as well as aquaculture until he retired in 2007. With his unit, he has been monitoring the state of world fishery resources for the last two decades, issuing a number of FAO warnings about the unsustainability of the ongoing fisheries regime. He pioneered and promoted in FAO the use of sustainability indicators, the precautionary approach and the ecosystem approach in support of fisheries management, and, more recently, the development of position papers in fisheries ethics and systemic approaches to fisheries assessment and management.
He is also the initiator and lead person of the UN Atlas of the Oceans (http://www.oceansatlas.com). Dr. Garcia is a member of a number of Scientific Steering Committees and Boards of institutions and initiatives such as the French Institute for Research and Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER), the Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education (CORE) Census of Marine Life project (CoML), the OBIS Board, and the Nippon Foundation Research and the European Board for Conservation and Development (EBCD).
Serge BESLIER
Administrator
Serge Beslier, holds a master in Law and Political Science of the University of Paris (France, 1967), after following an education at both the High-school for the Administration of Maritime Affairs (Bordeaux 1969) and the School of instruction for naval officers (Brest 1970).
He started his career within the French Administration for Maritime Affairs from 1971 to 1983 where he held several positions: Ministry of the Sea – Head of the office "Market organisation and relation with stakeholders (1979-1983), Responsible for the Search and Rescue Centre of Western Brittany (1974-1978) and Administrator in the port of Le Havre (1971-1974).
Then he joined the European Commission/ DG Fisheries and Maritime Affairs from 1984 to 2007. Within the European Commission he has been Acting Director for the External Policy and Markets (2007), Head of Unit for the International Policy and Law of the Sea (2005-2007),Head of Unit for the Enlargement and Coordination of International Policy (1997-2005), Head of Unit for the Enlargement and Coordination of the Common Fishery Policy (1994-1997), Head of Unit for the Market Organisation and Trade Policy (1987-1994), Official in the Unit Responsible for the Enlargement Negotiations with Spain and Portugal (1984-1987).
He is currently Honorary Director of the European Commission and Chief Administrator for Maritime Affairs (R). |
