This report is a collaboration between the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate (DCD), the Environment Directorate (ENV) and the Science, Technology and Innovation Directorate (STI).
The report was co-ordinated by Piera Tortora (DCD). Together with Claire Jolly (STI) and Katia Karousakis (ENV) they composed the core team for the report. Strategic guidance was provided by Jorge Moreira de Silva, Director of the Development Co-operation Directorate, as the lead Directorate for the report, with further guidance from Haje Schütte and Jens Sedemund.
The core team co-authored the Overview Chapter and Chapter 1. The lead authors for the other chapters are as follows, and have benefitted from inputs and sections from the core team: for Chapter 2 Claire Jolly and James Jolliffe from the OECD STI; for Chapter 3 Will Symes (formerly with the OECD ENV) and Katia Karousakis from the OECD ENV; for Chapters 4 and 5 Piera Tortora with research assistance from Alberto Agnelli, Veronica Villena and Piero Fontolan from DCD.
The report was prepared for publication under the supervision of Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte and Stacey Bradbury, with graphic design by Stephanie Coic and Sara Casadevall Bellés and editing by Susan Sachs. Thanks also go to Meria Greco and Jessica Voorhees for communications support.
The report was informed by the findings from the Sustainable Ocean Economy Country Diagnostics conducted in Antigua and Barbuda, Cabo Verde, Indonesia and Kenya by an OECD cross-directorate team led by Piera Tortora and also composed by Will Symes, James Jolliffe, Piero Fontolan, Alberto Agnelli and Veronica Villena. The team would like to acknowledge the governments of Antigua and Barbuda, Cabo Verde, Indonesia and Kenya for their invaluable collaboration, as well as the following people for the logistical support for the fact-finding missions: High Commissioner Karen-Mae Hill (High Commission for Antigua and Barbuda), Ambassador Helena Paiva and Ms. Helena Guerreiro (Embassy of Portugal in Cabo Verde), Mr. Massimo Geloso Grosso and Ms. Yulianti Susilo (OECD – Jakarta Office), Ambassador Vittorio Sandalli, Mr. Giovanni Brignone and Ms. Mutiara Ronci (Embassy of Italy in Indonesia), Ambassador Alberto Pieri (Embassy of Italy in Kenya), Mr. Hubert Perr (Delegation of the European Union in Kenya). The team would also like to acknowledge the Swedish Ministry of the Environment and Energy for their financial support enabling the Sustainable Ocean Economy Country Diagnostics of Indonesia.
The core team would like to gratefully acknowledge the comments received from OECD colleagues on earlier versions of the report, including: Anthony Cox, Simon Buckle, Edward Perry, Kate Kooka, Andrew Prag, Lisa Danielson, (OECD Environment Directorate), Claire Delpeuch, Haengnok Oh, Nomoto Kazuhiro (OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate), Andrea Goldstein (OECD Economics Department), Peter Haxton (OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities), Paul Horrocks, Valentina Bellesi, Juan Casado Asensio, Takayoshi Kato, Heiwon Shin, Carolyn Neunuebel, Özlem Taskin, Tomas Hos, Arnaud Pincet (OECD Development Co‑operation Directorate), Pieter Parmentier, Laurent Daniel (OECD Science, Technology and Innovation Directorate).
The authors would also like to gratefully acknowledge comments and feedback from delegates to the Environmental Policy Committee’s (EPOC) Working Party on Biodiversity, Water and Ecosystems (WPBWE), delegates to the Development Assistance Committee (DAC), and delegates to the DAC Network on Environment and Development Co-operation (ENVIRONET). The authors also acknowledge and thank the kind inputs from ministries, departments and research institutes’ representatives that form the Steering Board of the STI Ocean Economy Group, overseen by the OECD Committee for Science and Technological Policy (CSTP).
The authors would like to acknowledge the following experts for their comments on the Overview and Chapters 4 and 5: Adrien Vincent (Systemiq), André Rodrigues de Aquino (World Bank Group), Ben Hart (World Resources Institute), Chip Cunliffe (AXA XL), Dennis Fritsch (UNEP FI), Gail Hurley (Global Ethical Finance Initiative), Heino Nau (European Commission DG MARE), Martha McPherson (UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose) and Nicolas Pascal (Blue Finance).