High-Level Panel on Bringing Together Oceans and Freshwater

World Water Week in Stockholm, August 27, 2019 | 14:00-15:30 Room L10

Convenors: Action Platform for Source to Sea Management | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | Friends of Ocean Action | Future Earth Coasts | Global Environment Facility | Global Environment Facility - International Waters: Learning Exchange and Resource Network | Global Water Partnership | Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management | UNDP-SIWI Water Governance Facility

Torgny Holmgren

Executive Director, Stockholm International Water Institute

Isabella Lövin

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy and Environment, Sweden

Ms. Ruth MathewsSenior Manager, SIWI

H.E. Peter Thomson UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean

Dr Jackie King2019 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate

Dr. Martha Rojas-UrregoSecretary General, Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

Dr Xavier JayakumarMinister of Water, Land and Natural Resources, Malaysia

Dr Monika Weber-FahrExecutive Secretary, Global Water Partnership

Dr Youssef Filali-MeknassiSecretary, UNESCO International Hydrological

Programme (IHP)

Mr. Vidar HelgesenSpecial Envoy to the High-level Panel on Building a

Sustainable Ocean Economy, Norway

Reflections from respondents

Dr. Jakob Granit Director-General, Swedish Water and Marine

Management Agency

Ms. Shabana AbbasPresident, Water Youth Network

Mr. Bai-mass TaalSpecial Advisor to the 9th World Water Forum

Shabana Abbas

President, Water Youth Network

Jakob Granit

Director-General, Swedish Water and Marine Management Agency

Bai-mass Taal

Special Advisor to the 9th World Water Forum