Joseph Onwona Ansong, was formerly with the Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI), University College Cork in Ireland where he worked on the SIMCelt Project: Supporting Implementation of Maritime Spatial Planning in the Celtic Seas to support practical cross-border cooperation in the implementation of Maritime Spatial Planning within the Celtic Seas (OSPAR Region III). He was part of the first edition of the Erasmus Mundus Master Course on Maritime Spatial Planning which involved studying in the University of Venice (IUAV), University of Seville and the University of Azores. He had previously interned with the Marine Policy and Regional Coordination Section of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Paris and was also involved with the EC-DG MARE funded Adriatic Ionian Maritime Spatial Planning Project (ADRIPLAN) during his time at the University of Venice which sought to promote a coherent transnational approach to MSP in the Adriatic Ionian Region.
