Gesine Meißner

Since 2024 Gesine Meißner holds a mandate as EU Coordinator for the European Maritime Space. Before she chaired the german national committee for the UN Ocean Decade and was elected member of the Mission Board “Rerstore our Ocean and Waters” 2019-2024. From 2009-2019 she worked as Member of the European of the European Parliament in different committees (transport, environment, fishery, research).

In 2015 she founded the Intergroup SEARICA (seas, rivers, islands and coastal areas) with 90 MEPs from different political groups, countries and committees. As Chair of SEARICA she was responsible until 2019 for more than 50 events with over 5000 participants from industry, science, NGOs and politics. She brought the G7 exhibition OceansPlasticLab to Brussels, accompanied by conferences about ocean pollution. In 2019 she initiated the first Ocean-Conference in Hemicycle in Brussels about “The future of the blue planet”, together with the Commissioners Karmenu Vella and Carlos Moedas. She was also appointed as Special Envoy of the President of the European Parliament on maritime policy.