THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Angel C. Alcala - President

Alberto A. Encomienda – Executive Director

Yoshikazu Hayano

Peter Flewwelling

Stuart J. Green 

Carmen N. Pedrosa

Angel C. Alcala - B.S., Silliman University, M.A., Ph.D. Stanford University, Doctor of Humanities (honoris causa, Xavier University); Professor Emeritus of Biology, Silliman University, Dumaguete City, Philippines, 2007 up to present; Instructor to full Professor, Silliman University, 1952-1988; Research Professor, Silliman University, 2000-2006; Director, Silliman University-Angelo King Center for Research & Environmental Management, Silliman University, 1999-2007; Director, Commission on Higher Education Zonal Research Center, 2000-2010; Chairman, Silliman University-Angelo King Center for Research & Environmental Management, 2008 up to present; Consultant on Research, Commission on Higher Education, 2010 up to present; Consultant on Coastal Environmental Management, Department of Environment and Natural Resources for World Bank and Asian Development Bank, 2000-2011; Chairman, Philippine Commission on Higher Education, 1995-1999; Secretary, Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources, 1992-1995. Alcala is Pew Fellow on Marine Conservation, Honorary Fellow of the American Society of Herpetologists and Ichthylogists, Fellow of the Philippine National Research Council, Academician, Philippine National Academy of Science and Technology, Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fulbright Awardee, Ramon Magsaysay Awardee, Biodiversity Awardee of the Field Museum (Chicago). He served as Chief Scientist, JOMSRE III and IV (2004-2007) and Editor of JOMSRE Proceedings (2008). He has published nearly 200 technical and scientific papers on Herpetology, Marine Biology, Marine Protected Areas, Biodiversity, and Coastal Resource Management in books and in refereed and ISI international journals.

Alberto A. Encomienda - a career Foreign Service Officer of the Republic of the Philippines retired in 2009 with the rank of Chief of Mission, Class I. He served as the country’s Ambassador to Greece, Malaysia and Singapore. His career specialization is Oceans Law and Policy with an LLM degree from the University of London in 1972 and Columbia University  in  1978,  and advanced academic credits at the Columbia School of International Relations working towards a doctoral degree, also in Oceans Law and Policy. The last decade of his diplomatic career was focused and dedicated to Oceans Policy and Law of the Sea as head of the then Maritime and Ocean Affairs Unit (MOAU) under the Office of the Secretary of Foreign Affairs that also functioned as the Secretariat of the high-level Cabinet Committee on Maritime and Ocean Affairs (CABCOM-MOA). The CABCOM-MOA was later abolished and at the same time the MOAU was upgraded to the Maritime and Ocean Affairs Center (MOAC) with Mr. Encomienda as Secretary-General. The agenda of the CABCOM-MOA and its policy formulation and oversight functions were devolved to MOAC. To give a higher profile and prominence to ocean-related concerns of the country as an archipelagic State, MOAC functions were transferred to the Office of the President. Now designated as the Commission on Maritime and Ocean Affairs (CMOAS) chaired by the Executive Secretary of the Office of the President,  Mr. Encomienda headed the CMOAS Secretariat for a year after its establishment. He is presently engaged in NGO Track 1½ work as Executive Director of balikBALANGAY, Inc.

Peter Flewwelling - the career commenced with 27 years with the Canadian Government, first as a Navy/Submarine Officer (1966-1977), then involved in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans from Fishery Officer to Acting National Director Regulations and Compliance and National Chief,Surveillance and Enforcement.  The latter period included a stint as Director of Pacific and Caribbean Basin programmes in a Canadian Crown Corporation, International Centre for Ocean Development and retirement from government service in 1991.  International initiatives being addressed as Director on retirement included 112 projects in the Indian Ocean, South Pacific and Caribbean Basin in marine ecosystem, fisheries management, environment and gender related affairs.From 1991 to present (2013), Mr. Flewwelling has been involved in international development activities in the maritime sector in South America, east Africa/Indian Ocean area, Asia, and Western and Central Pacific with experiences in more than 60 countries on long and short term ocean management, fisheries and coastal State issues.  Involvement as a consultant included projects and programmes as Programme Director, Team Leader and Team Member for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Asian Development bank (ADB), World Bank (WB), Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Norwegian International DevelopmentAgency (NORAD), UNESCO, UNDP, AusAID, Municipal Governments, the Western and Central Pacific (Tuna) Commission as Compliance Manager, and IOTC and NAFO as member delegate, to positions such as he addresses today, Fisheries and MCS Advisor to the Ministry of Fisheries Mozambique.  These duties included, as well as the positions noted above, the writing and publishing of global reference MCS publications; fisheries management development papers;programme implementation;evaluation and training; leading tsunami recovery activities; and working to establish regional fisheries management organizations.

Stuart J. Green - Based in the Asia Pacific for over two decades, Stuart is a coastal and fisheries management specialist with a BS in Applied Biology (fisheries), an MS in Integrated Coastal Zone Management and having worked with numerous programs making mistakes finally finished his MBA at Leicester University in 2013.  He has worked for a variety of organizations working both on the ground (Non-Profits, communities and community based organizations) in the middle Local and National Governments, Academic Institutions and private sector partners and at the national and regional level with implementers and funders alike.He has a lot of successes to name and a few failures that he is proud to have learnt from in the region. He currently works as Senior Advisor to the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in their Western Pacific program.