The Ocean Economy to 2050 publication is an output of the OECD ocean economy programme in the Science and Technology Policy (STP) Division of the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation. The report was produced under the guidance of Claire Jolly by a team composed of James Jolliffe, Claudia Abdallah, Barrie Stevens, Marit Undseth and Jeong-In Chang (as staff-on-loan from Korea Maritime Institute), all part of the Innovation Policies for Space and the Ocean Unit (IPSO). Sylvain Fraccola and Sebastian Ordelheide provided editorial and communications support. The authors are grateful to Kyriakos Vogiatzis (DSTI) for his administrative assistance.
The OECD Ocean Economy Group is kindly supported by the following organisations: Department of Economy, Science and Innovation of Flanders (DESI), Belgium; Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Canada; Marine Institute, Ireland; Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (SZAD), Italy; Korea Maritime Institute (KMI), Korea; Research Council of Norway (RCN), Norway; the Directorate-General for Maritime Policy (DGPM) and Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal; and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States.
The programme of work on ocean economy measurement and this report would not exist without the support, expertise and advice provided by the Steering Board of the OECD Ocean Economy Group. Current and past Steering Board members contributing to this work stream include: Gert Verreet (DESI, Flanders, Belgium); Niall McDonough and Jenny O’Leary (Marine Institute, Ireland); Zeba Ali, Sylvain Ganter, Todd Crawford, Alejandro DeMaio-Sukic and Robert Pascal (DFO, Canada); Jacoba Mol (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada); Marco Borra (SZAD, Italy); Jeong-In Chang (KMI, Korea); Christina Abildgaard and Kjersti Fjalestad (RCN, Norway); Conceição Santos (DGPM, Portugal); Sofia Cordiero and Victor Silva (FCT, Portugal); and Monica Grasso (NOAA, United States).
The OECD data and analysis presented in this report is the result of active cooperation and exchanges with many national experts from national statistical offices, ocean scientists and economists in public administrations, research institutes, universities, and industry representatives including particularly Martin Grimstad, Paul Sletten and Tor K. Ånestad (Statistics Norway, Norway), Cristina Ramos and Maria Angela Lobo and Cristina Neves (Statistics Portugal, Portugal), Connor Franks and Edward Morgan (Bureau of Economic Analysis, United States), Gerry Brady (Central Statistics Office, Ireland), Jennifer Zhuang (NOAA, United States), Stephen Hynes (National University of Ireland, Ireland), Jan Mees and Chantal Martens (Flanders Marine Institute, Belgium), Eveline Buyck (Flanders Blue Cluster, Belgium), Byeong-Ho Lim, Soobin Jeong, Tae-Jin Kim, Janghan Kwon and SungEun Kim (Korea Maritime Institute), Roberto Cimino (Italian Blue Growth National technology Cluster), Mathias Jonas and Sam Harper (International Hydrographic Organization), Vidar Helgesen, Julian Barbiere, Alison Clausen and Emma Heslop (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO).
The report benefitted as well from the inputs of OECD experts, many of whom participated in internal technical seminars, larger workshops, and/or provided comments to drafts. They include Jerry Sheehan Director, Jens Lundsgaard, Deputy Director, Alessandra Colecchia, Head of the STP Division, Alice Holt, Fernando Galindo-Rueda, Colin Webb and Norihiko Yamato (both from the Industry Dynamics and Globalisation Unit), Laurent Daniel and Emilie Berger (both from the Shipbuilding Unit), all from the Directorate of Science, Technology and Innovation; Claire Delpeuch, Will Symes and Fabiena Cerasa from the Fisheries and Aquaculture Unit in the Trade and Agriculture Directorate; Kumi Kitamori, Shardul Agrawala and Katia Karousakis from the Environment Directorate; Shashwat Koirala from the Development Co-operation Directorate; Juliette Lassman and Oriana Romano from the Water Governance, Blue and Circular Economy Unit in the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE); Peter Haxton, Jane Stacey, Julie Reimann, Eva Katzer from the Tourism Unit in CFE.
The team thanks all these individuals warmly for their support.