PURE OCEAN SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Our wish was to gather an independant and international Scientific Committee which defines the criteria for the call for projects and selects those to support. A big thank you to its members, who have agreed to join the Commitee and will help Pure Ocean to complete its actions.

Françoise Gaill
Scientific committee coordinator for Ocean and Climate Platform,
Scientific advisor of Institut Ecologie et Environnement (INEE),
National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)

Gilles Boeuf
Research Director at Banyuls-sur-Mer Observatory,
Professor at Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University,
Former President of Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle,
President of the Scientific Board of the French Agency for Biodiversity

Anna Zivian
Currently focusing on imbricated science and policy aspects of ocean climate change at Ocean Conservancy.
Past research looks at the intersection of environmental policy, science, and society, and, in particular, issues of democracy and public participation in science.
Previous Associate Director of Ocean Conservancy’s Knowledge Management Program and Senior Manager of the Ocean Planning program from 2009 to 2013

Kartik Shanker
Indian Institute of Science: works on various aspects of the distribution and diversity of flora and fauna in terrestrial and marine ecosystems
Founder trustee of Dakshin Foundation, a coastal and marine conservation NGO
Ex -President of the International Sea Turtle Society and Regional Vice-Chair of the IUCN

Abdelmalek Faraj
Doctor of the Ecole des Mines de Paris in geostatics and fisheries management
General Director of the National Institute for Halieutic Research (INRH)
President of African Institutes Network for Fisheries Research and Marine Sciences (RAFISMER)