Jorn Schmidt

Jörn is Chair of the Science Committee (SCICOM) of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Ocean and Society at Kiel University, Kiel, Germany and Adjunct Professor at the Marine Affairs Program at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Jörn is working on social-ecological systems, marine and fisheries ecology, inter- and transdisciplinary concepts, knowledge co-production, and games for communication (www.ecoocean.de, www.go-jelly.de). He has worked in the Baltic and North Sea as well as in Senegal, Cabo Verde, Haida Gwaii (Canada), Sitka (USA) and Peru. Jörn is now working with the ICES science network of over 6000 scientists to implement ICES strategic and science plan. Jörn is also member of the Group of Experts and German Focal Point for the World Ocean Assessment and member of the high‐level stakeholder advisory board of the Empowering women for the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development project.