Charles Ehler
Ocean Visions, Paris, France
France

Charles Ehler is the President of Ocean Visions and a marine spatial planning consultant to UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) in Paris, France. Before moving to Paris in 2005 he was a senior executive at the U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for 32 years. He previously taught regional planning and environmental management at the University of Michigan, University of California, Los Angeles, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Fanny Douvere
World Heritage Marine Programme, UNESCO
France

Fanny Douvere is the Coordinator of UNESCO’s World Heritage Marine Programme in Paris, France. From 2005-09 she was the co-coordinator of IOC’s marine spatial planning initiative and co-author of UNESCO’s influential guide, Marine Spatial Planning, a Step-by-Step Approach toward Ecosystem-based Management, published in 2009. She completed her PhD in marine spatial planning at the University of Ghent (Belgium) in May 2010.