Name

Role

Expertise

Affiliation

Vacant position

Chairperson

Johnny JOHANNESSEN

Member

Ocean

Research Coordinator, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Norway

Amos KABO-BAH

Professor, Department of Energy and Environmental Engineering, UENR
Ghana Earth Observation Research and Innovation Centre (EORIC), Ghana

Sybil SEITZINGER

Member

Global environmental change, Biogeochemistry, Nutrient dynamics, Land/ atmosphere/ ocean interactions

Professor, University of Victoria, Canada

Youba SOKONA

Member

Climate policy in particular for developing countries, Mitigation strategies

Special Advisor on Sustainable Development
South Centre, Geneva

Kazuto SUDA

Member

Atmospheric environmental science

Director, Atmospheric Environment Division Global Environment and Marine Department,
Japan Meteorological Agency,  Japan

Program Director, International Joint Graduate Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences 
Tohoku University, Japan

Director, World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS)/ Department of Geography
University of Zurich
Winterthurerstrasse, Switzerland

Sabrina SPEICH

Co-Chair, OOPC

Ocean physics, air-sea interactions, ocean observations, nonlinear dynamics, numerical modeling, process studies

Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris)
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique
Institut Simon Laplace
Paris, France

Weidong YU

Co-Chair, OOPC

Indian Ocean Observing, TPOS 2020

National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center 
Director, State Oceanic Administration 
Beijing, China
 

Peter THORNE

Co-Chair, AOPC

Remote sensing and products

National University of Ireland Maynooth
Geography Department
Maynooth, Ireland

Thelma KRUG

Co-Chair, TOPC

Forest Monitoring and Climate Change Impacts

National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil

Martin HEROLD

Co-Chair, TOPC

Land Cover, Biomass, AFOLU