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Peter M Haugan is policy director at Institute of Marine Research, Norway and professor at the Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Norway. In his position at IMR he reports directly to the CEO on strategic matters and maintains a special responsibility for international and crosscutting issues. He has more than 30 years of experience in marine scientific research and international ocean science coordination covering ocean, climate and energy issues. His professional merits include 5 years as research engineer in the petroleum industry in the early 1980ies, active contributions to seagoing and polar oceanography from the late 1980ies, research on climate, carbon cycling and ocean storage of CO2 from the 1990ies, head of institutions, international coordination of marine research infrastructures and science-policy interface from 2000.<\/p>\n
From his professorship originally in oceanography, he has initiated and led research and education efforts in renewable energy including offshore wind and maritime low carbon solutions. Presently he serves as chair of JPI Oceans. He is also chair of an ICES Working Group on Interactions between mCDR and Ecosystems, Fisheries and Aquaculture. In 2018-2025 he was co-chair of the Expert Group \/ Lead Expert of the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy and in 2015-2019 he was chair of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC of UNESCO). He has also been seconded part time to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n
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Peter M Haugan is policy director at Institute of Marine Research, Norway and professor at the Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Norway. In his position at IMR he reports directly to the CEO on strategic matters and maintains a special responsibility for international and crosscutting issues. He has more than 30 years of experience in marine scientific research and international ocean science coordination covering ocean, climate and energy issues. His professional merits include 5 years as research engineer in the petroleum industry in the early 1980ies, active contributions to seagoing and polar oceanography from the late 1980ies, research on climate, carbon cycling and ocean storage of CO2 from the 1990ies, head of institutions, international coordination of marine research infrastructures and science-policy interface from 2000. From his professorship originally in oceanography, he has initiated and led research and education efforts in renewable energy including offshore wind and maritime low carbon solutions. Presently he serves as chair of JPI Oceans. He is also chair of an ICES Working Group on Interactions between mCDR and Ecosystems, Fisheries and Aquaculture. In 2018-2025 he was co-chair of the Expert Group \/ Lead Expert of the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy and in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245142,"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244940\/revisions\/245142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}