• Professor Harry Scheiber – University of California at Berkeley School of Law

  Harry N. Scheiber is the Stefan Riesenfeld Professor of Law and History, Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley.   He co-directs the Law of the Sea Institute, UC Berkeley (with David Caron) and directs the university's Institute for Legal Research.   He holds the doctorate from Cornell, previously was professor at Dartmouth College and UC San Diego (LaJolla), and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and life fellow of the American Society for Legal History (which he also served as president). He holds the honorary degree D.Jur. from Uppsal University (Sweden) and has twice been a Guggenheim Fellow. Scheiber has published extensively on ocean, including historical works as well as policy studies.  Recent books of which he is editor/contributor include "The State and Freedom of Contract" (Stanford U Press), "Law of the Sea" (Kluwer), "Bringing New Law to Ocean Waters" (Kluwer, co-ed. with D. Caron), and a monograph on "Inter-Allied Relations and Ocean Law" (Academia Sinica). He is completing a book to be entitled "Dividing the Waters: Japanese-US Relations, the Pacific Fisheries, and the Transformation of Ocean Law, 1937-70" and co-editing "Oceans in the Nuclear Age'" (forthcoming, co-edi. with D. Caron).

  
  

• Professor Mario Aguilar – Embassy of Mexico, Washington D.C.

  Mario Aguilar is the general Representative in the USA for the Mexican Agency responsible for Fisheries, CONAPESCA.

  Responsible for the conduction of the bilateral agenda on fisheries which include issues that range from the tuna dolphin dispute, to other management plans for sustainable fisheries.

  He represents Mexico in other fora like United Nations, FAO , OECD and the Regional Fisheries Management Organizations where Mexico participates, in issues pertaining fisheries management, conservation of species and the Law of the sea.

  He was the leading representative of Mexico in last year’s Revision Conference of the New York 95 Agreement for the Straddling Stocks, serves as a permanent representative before the Inter American Tropical Tuna Commission, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas and other high seas fisheries fora.

   A negotiator for the NAFTA environmental side agreement and the AIDCP , the agreement that brought all the countries of America  that fished for tuna, including Mexico and the USA , to eliminate the threat to dolphin populations in the fishery. Member of Mexican delegations to bilateral consultations related to Law of the Sea issues including, USA, Canada, Guatemala, El Salvador, Spain and France.

  He was the environmental attaché at the Mexican Embassy and he is a Lawyer by training. Graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico possesses a graduate degree from Georgetown Law center.

  
  
• Professor Donna Christie – College of Law, Florida State University

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  Donna R. Christie is the Elizabeth C. and Clyde W. Atkinson Professor of Law and Associate Dean for International Programs at the Florida State University College of Law.  She attended the University of Georgia  School of Law and The Hague Academy of International Law, and from 1978-1980 was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Marine Policy and Ocean Management Program at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.  Professor Christie has served as chair of the Natural Resources Law and the Admiralty and Maritime Law Sections of the Association of American Law Schools and has been  a member of the American Law Institute since 1995. She teaches and writes in many areas of marine policy and coastal management.

  
  

• Mr. Gene Proulx – Chief, Southeast Enforcement Division NMFS (retired)

Eugene Proulx is a career Monitoring Control and Surveillance expert who retired from as a Special Agent in Charge from the NOAA Fisheries (United States), Office for Enforcement in 2002.  His twenty nine years of experience in national and international fisheries was frequently focused on high seas interdiction of unlawful fishing activities.   He served as an enforcement manager in both the Pacific from 1990 thru 1997 and the Atlantic from 1997 thru 2002.  In early 2001 Mr. Proulx was involved in the first meetings of organization for the MCS Network which is one of the concerns of the High Seas Task Force.  Other areas of focus include techniques for vessel monitoring and remote sensing of high seas activities.  Mr. Proulx currently resides in Belleair Beach Florida where he participates in local and regional fisheries matters.

jproulx@tampabay.rr.com