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Biographies
On July 20, 2004, Geoff Regan was re-appointed as the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and as the Regional Minister for Nova Scotia – posts he has held since December 12, 2003.
Geoff is currently serving his third term as the Member of Parliament for Halifax West and is a member of three Cabinet committees (Domestic Affairs, Aboriginal Affairs and Global Affairs). Previously, he has served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Government House Leader and as a member of the Prime Minister’s Caucus Task Force on Urban Issues.
Before entering politics, Geoff practiced law and was an active community volunteer. He has coached minor hockey and ringette, and worked with the Metro Food Bank Society, Beacon House, Habitat for Humanity, and the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Geoff graduated from Dalhousie University with a Bachelor of Laws in 1983 and was admitted to the Nova Scotia Barrister’s Society in 1984. Prior to that, he graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Political Science.
Geoff is a proud Nova Scotian, who has dedicated his life to serving the people of his province. He is well known as an open, accessible and hardworking Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister. Geoff and his wife Kelly reside in Bedford with their three children and are very involved in their community.
Aqorau, Transform
Dr. Transform Aqorau has more than 17 years of experience with fisheries in the Pacific region. From 2001 to 2004, he was involved in the Preparatory Conference for the establishment of the Commission for the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Region. Dr. Aqorau has served as Legal Adviser to the Fiji-based Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat and is currently serving as Legal Counsel to the Forum Fisheries Agency. He earned his Master of Laws degree from the University of British Columbia, and received his doctorate from the University of Wollongong in Australia.
Carlos Dominguez Diaz was Director General for Fisheries Resources with the Spanish Ministry of Fisheries from 2002 to 2004. As a diplomat, he has represented Spain at a number of regional fisheries management organizations, including the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, and the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission. Mr. Diaz advised the Spanish delegation on legal matters during international negotiations on the FAO Compliance Agreement, the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, and the UN Agreement on Straddling Stocks and Highly Migratory Species. He earned his Law Degree at the University of Sevilla in 1990.
Dr. Hasjim Djalal was born in Bukittinggi, West Sumatra. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and had served in various capacities with the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs and as a diplomat in Africa, Asia, Europe and the United Nations. He teaches International Law and Relations at Padjadjaran University in Bandung and at the National Defense Institute in Jakarta, and lectures at other universities in Indonesia. A past President of the International Seabed Authority (ISBA), he has written several books and numerous articles on the UN Law of the Sea and regional issues.
Eiriksson, Gudmundur Ambassador
Gudmundur Eiriksson is currently Iceland’s Ambassador to Canada. He is formerly Dean of Co-operative Programs, Secretary of the Council, Director of International Law and Human Rights Studies at the University for Peace in Costa Rica, and has served as a judge on the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. He received an LL.B. from King’s College, University of London, and his LL.M. from Columbia University. He is the author of The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and has written numerous articles on the Law of the Sea, legal education, international criminal law, international organizations, disarmament and human rights.
Dr. Arthur May was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, and attended Memorial and McGill universities, earning Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Fisheries Biology and Marine Sciences. He worked as a fisheries biologist for 15 years, doing research in the North Atlantic from Newfoundland to Greenland. He has served as Deputy Minister of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council President of Memorial University, and was the first Chairman of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) and the first Canadian Commissioner of the Canada/U.S. Pacific Salmon Commission. He is also an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Prof. McDorman has been with the Law Faculty at the University of Victoria in British Columbia since 1985. His teaching areas include international law, international ocean law and politics, and trade law. He has been published nearly 100 times on these subjects. Since 2000, Prof. McDorman has been Editor-in-Chief of Ocean Development and International Law: The Journal of Marine Affairs. He has undertaken several contracts related to fisheries legislation and fisheries trade matters for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. From 2002 to 2004, Prof. McDorman was the academic-in-residence with the Bureau of Legal Affairs at Foreign Affairs Canada, where he worked on ocean matters and international environmental law issues.
Donald McRae is a Professor of Business and Trade Law at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He was legal adviser to the Agent for Canada in the Gulf of Maine Case, and counsel to Canada in the St. Pierre and Miquelon Maritime Boundary Arbitration with France. He was chief negotiator for Canada in the Pacific Salmon negotiations with the United States in1998-99, and advised the New Zealand government in negotiations with Australia over continental shelf boundaries leading to an agreement in 2004. Prof. McRae has published widely on law of the sea and international trade law issues and is Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law.
Evelyne Meltzer received her B.A. and law degrees from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada followed by a Master of Laws degree specializing in Marine Affairs and Asian Studies from the University of Washington in Seattle. She has worked over the past 25 years on fisheries and oceans related matters in Canada and abroad as a public servant, independent consultant, NGO representative and academic. Since 1988 she has worked for Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) as Chief, Marine Policy, and as Acting Regional Director, Policy and Economics in the Maritimes Region. She is currently a Visiting Scholar with the Dalhousie Marine and Environmental Law Institute.
Dr. Rebecca Metzner received her Ph.D. in Marine Policy from the University of Delaware. She currently serves as Fishery Analyst – Fishing Capacity in the Fishery Policy and Planning Division of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome. Prior to the FAO, Dr. Metzner held positions with Fisheries Western Australia (Principal Policy Officer), the Australian National Fisheries Adjustment Scheme Project (Principal Economist), and the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Oceans and Fisheries. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Institute for Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET). Her current work focuses on fisheries capacity management, ecosystem-based approaches, and monitoring, control, and surveillance issues.
A Ph.D. from the University of Cape Town, Denzil Miller holds the South African Antarctic Medal (1996) for services to Antarctic conservation and management. He has been an active participant in a number of key national and international fisheries negotiations. Dr. Miller has published widely on Antarctic science as well as on governance and policy issues related to ocean areas. He is the current Executive Secretary of Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), is an Honorary Research Professor at the University of Tasmania, and chairs the Regional Fisheries Bodies Meeting. Dr. Miller is also a member of the Inter-Ministerial Task Force on IUU fishing.
Molenaar, Erik Jaap
Erik Molenaar studied Netherlands law with a specialization international law at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and completed his PhD on Coastal State Jurisdiction over Vessel-Source Pollution in 1998. Since then, his research has shifted more towards international fisheries law. His current research focuses on curbing the impact of third State actors in fishing and tourism in Antarctica. Dr. Molenaar has been employed as a Senior Research Associate with the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (NILOS) since 1994, and he currently assists the Secretariat of the Ministerial-led Task Force on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing on the High Seas.
Nandan Satya N., Ambassador
Satya N. Nandan has been Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority since March 1996. He has participated in many high-level international conferences throughout the years, and has written extensively on the Law of the Sea, the United Nations and related matters. He serves as an editor-in-chief and general editor of the article by article commentary on the Law of the Sea Convention. Ambassador Nandan has also served as Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Fiji and Ambassador to the United Nations, the European Union, Belgium, France, Italy and the Netherlands. He was Undersecretary-General of the United Nations and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Law of the Sea from 1983-92.
Dr. Scott Parsons was born in Lumsden, Newfoundland and attended Memorial and McGill universities, earning Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Marine Biology and Marine Science. Dr. Parsons served in various capacities with the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans. He started his career as a research scientist in St. John’s and later served as Assistant Deputy Minister of Science and the first Assistant Deputy Minister of Oceans in DFO. He was responsible for developing and securing the passage by Parliament of the Canada Oceans Act 1997. He has extensive international experience, having served as Canadian Commissioner to ICCAT and NASCO and participated in NAFO. From 1997 to 2000, he was President of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). He was instrumental in establishing ICES’ Advisory Committee on Ecosystems. He has published more than 100 papers on fisheries biology, policy and management and a prize-winning book on Management of Marine Fisheries in Canada. Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor in the University of Ottawa’s School of Management.
Rayfuse, Rosemary
Rosemary Rayfuse has published widely on many aspects of international law, with particular emphasis on law of the sea and international fisheries law. She holds a master’s degree in International Law from Cambridge in the U.K., and completed her PhD at the University of Utrecht. Dr. Rayfuse had taught at the University of New South Wales in Australia and at Queen’s University in Canada. Her book Non-Flag Enforcement in High Seas Fisheries analyses the extent to which the principle of exclusive flag state jurisdiction on the high seas has been modified in the context of enforcement of high seas fisheries conservation and management measures.
Member for The Straits & White Bay North
Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, and Minister Responsible for Labrador Affairs
Born and raised in Gunners Cove, Trevor Taylor graduated from Truman Eddison Memorial in Gunners Cove in 1984 and attended Memorial University and the Marine Institute. He has been extensively involved in the fishery at several levels. He worked as a fishermen harvesting cod until the moratorium in 1992. He was skipper for three years of a 55-foot shrimp / crab boat Cull’s Eclipse. He is a past executive board member of the Fish, Food and Allied Workers’ Union and worked for six years as a staff member of the Union. He served two terms as a member of the Fisheries Resource Conservation Council. He taught off-campus fisheries courses for the Marine Institute. He served as a member of the Oxfam fisheries delegation to Nicaragua. He served on the boards of the Canadian Centre for Fisheries Innovation, the St. Anthony Basin Resources Inc. (SABRI), and the White Bay North Rural Development Association. He was first elected to the House of Assembly in a by-election in The Straits & White Bay North on January 30, 2001 and subsequently served as the Opposition critic for Fisheries and Aquaculture and for Labrador and Aboriginal Affairs. Mr. Taylor and his wife, Michelle, have two children: Ian and Nicholas.
Schmidt, Carl-Christian
Carl-Christian Schmidt has been the Head of the Fisheries Division in the Directorate for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries of the OECD since August 2001. He participates in a number of international fora representing the OECD and its work on fisheries, natural resource management and ocean issues. In 1997 and 1998, Mr. Schmidt set up the Marine Stewardship Council based in London, a non-governmental accreditation organization devoted to promote sustainable fisheries through certification. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Political Science from Copenhagen School of Economics and Business Administration and a postgraduate Certificate of Advanced European Studies from the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium.
