Graham is the Chief Executive of Asia Affinity Holdings Ltd., a diversified financial services company headquartered in Hong Kong, with operating subsidiaries in Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. Graham started his career with a major UK insurance broker and in 1974 was posted to their Japan office. He has remained in Asia and over the course of the intervening 45 years has lived and built insurance businesses in Japan, Thailand, Malaysia and a regional wholesale broking business in Singapore.

Dr. Jan Newton is a Senior Principal Oceanographer with the Applied Physics Laboratory of the University of Washington and an affiliate professor with the UWSchool of Oceanography and the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, both in the UW College of the environment. She is the Executive Director of the Northwest Association of Networked Ocean ObservingSystems (NANOOS), the US IOOS Regional Association for the Pacific Northwest. She is a Co-director of the Washington Ocean Acidification Center and the Co-chair of the Global Ocean Acidification ObservingNetwork.

Winnie Lau has 15 years of experience integrating science, international policy, resource management, and development to conserve the oceans and people. She has a master’s degree and a PhD in Oceanography from the University of Washington.