Talks and Events
INC-5.2 Plastic Treaty Negotiations
Place: Geneva, Switzerland
Date: August 2025
Role: Observer and Analyst
Resumed Fifth United Nations Intergovernmental Conferences on Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ)
Place: New York, USA
Date: February-March 2023
Role: Observer, Analyst, Negotiator and Technical Adviser
Place: Lisbon, Portugal
Date: 27th June to 1st July 2022
Role: Observer, Analyst, and Representative
Recent Intergovernmental
Place: Nice, France
Date: June 9th-13th 2025
Role: Observer, Analyst
Place: New York, USA
Date: 24th-26th June 2025
Role: Observer and analyst
Place: Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date: 4th-8th December 2023
Role: Observer with World Wide Fund (WWF)
Fourth and Fifth United Nations Intergovernmental Conferences on Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ)
Place: New York, USA
Date: February (Fourth) and August (Fifth) 2022
Role: Observer, Analyst, and Representative
Gateway to the Arctic X Workshop
Place: Reykjavik, Iceland
Date: February 2024
Role: Presenter
Alfred Wegener Institute Science Day 2022
Place: Bremerhaven, Germany
Date: 1st December 2022
Role: Organiser and Moderator
Place: Bremerhaven, Germany
Date: 2022
Role: Session Host for the Topic “From Science to Policy: Various Conservation Concepts and Contexts”
German Marine Research Consortium (KDM)
Place: Oldenburg, Germany
Year: 2021
Role: Poster Presentation: “Where is the Bio-Ocean?”
American Association of Geographers Annual Conference
Place: New York, USA
Date: 25th February – 1st March 2022
Role: Paper Presentation: “Where is the Bio-Ocean”
Academic conferences
International Conference for YOUNG Marine Researchers (ICYMARE)
Place: Oldenburg, Germany
Date: 2023
Role: Participant
Alfred Wegener Institute Ph.D. days
Place: Potsdam, Germany
Date: 30th May to 02nd Jun 2023
Role: Co-organiser and Moderator on behalf of the Doctoral Team
Marine Political Ecology Symposium
Place: Twente, Netherlands
Date: 21st to 23rd May 2023
Role: Participant
Alfred Wegener Institute PhD Days Conference
Place: Helgoland, Germany
Date: 25th-28th April 2022
Role: Most Creative Poster and Presentation: “Deviating from Concepts or Contexts?”
German Marine Research Consortium (KDM)
Place: Bremen, Germany
Year: 2023
Role: Poster Presentation: “Where is the Bio-Ocean?”
Public talks
Public Debate hosted by Natural History Museum Bern on “Big Game Hunting and Colonial History. What Role Do We Play?”
Place: Bern, Switzerland
Date: November 15th-18th, 2022
Role: Main Speaker
Movie Night for Shark Week hosted by Oldenburg University Cinema (UNIKINO) in collaboration with HIFMB
Place: Oldenburg, Germany
Date: February 15th, 2023
Role: Co-organiser and Presenter
Public Debate hosted by AFFORD and Birmingham Museum Trust on “Devolving Restitution #6 Natural Science”
Place: Birmingham, UK
Date: November 10th, 2022
Role: Main Speaker (Attended Virtually)
Solomon Sebuliba 