This publication was prepared under the leadership of María del Pilar Garrido Gonzalo, Director of the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate (DCD). Shashwat Koirala led the drafting of the report, together with an authorship group consisting of Antoine Cahn and Franka Huhn, as well as the following external experts: Gail Hurley (Senior Development Finance Expert), Raphaëla Le Gouvello (Ocean Economy and Ecosystem Expert, IUCN Commission of Ecosystem Management/RespectOcean), and Pierre Failler (Director, Centre for Blue Governance, University of Portsmouth). The publication was developed under the supervision of Jens Sedemund, Head of the Climate, Biodiversity and Sustainable Ocean Unit, and with strategic guidance from Eva Beuselinck, Head of the Policies and Networks Division, and Haje Schütte, Head of the Financing for Sustainable Development Division – all within the OECD’s Development Co-operation Directorate. Piera Tortora also provided valuable steering and direction. The authors are grateful to Sokob Challener for her assistance with organisational and logistical matters; Gabrielle Cristofaro for his contribution to the drafting; as well as Henri-Bernard Solignac Lecomte, Joelle Bassoul, Ola Kasneci, and Stephanie Coic for their advice and support on communications. Fiona Hinchcliffe conducted an editorial review of the publication.
Feedback and inputs provided by the following OECD colleagues is also highly appreciated: Juan Casado-Asensio, Carlotta Schilling, Dominique Blaquier, Julian Kath, Cibele Cesca and Jenny Hedman (Development Co-operation Directorate); Laurent Daniel, Emilie Berger and Anna Lafforgue (Science and Technology Directorate); Juliette Lassman and Georges Laime (Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities); and Will Symes (Trade and Agriculture Directorate).
The publication benefited greatly from inputs and comments from the members of the Development Assistance Committee’s Network on Environment and Development Co-operation and an informal multistakeholder group on a sustainable ocean economy, namely representatives from: Africa-Europe Foundation, African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, Central Bank of Barbados, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France), Coral Triangle Conservation Trust Fund, Duke University, European Commission, European Investment Bank, G77 BBNJ negotiating team, Global Fund for Coral Reefs, Government of Angola, Government of Antigua and Barbuda, Government of Australia, Government of Fiji, Government of France, Government of Germany, Government of Hungary, Government of Iceland, Government of Indonesia, Government of Ireland, Government of Italy, Government of Japan, Government of Kenya, Government of New Zealand, Government of Norway, Government of Portugal, Government of Saint Lucia, Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Government of the United States of America, Howell Marine Consulting, Indian Ocean Commission, Institut Jacques Delors, Institute of Security Studies, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, International Platform for Ocean Sustainability, International Union for the Conservation of Nature, IPDM-Portuguese Institute of the Law of the Sea, Ocean Hub Africa, Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Philippines Fish Right Program, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Stanford University, Stockholm University, United Nations Convention on Trade and Development, United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, United Nations Global Compact, University of British Columbia, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Rhode Island, University of Washington, Waitt Institute, World Ocean Council, World Resources Institute, World Trade Organisation and World Wide Fund for Nature.