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International Polar Year 2007–2008 - WMO

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Observers:<br />

Johannes Huber (ATCM) was the Executive Secretary of the Antarctic Treaty<br />

Secretariat until 2009. After pursuing an educational career that led him from<br />

physics via political science to Chinese history, he joined the Netherlands Foreign<br />

Service in 1979. From 1997 to 2004 he was the Dutch representative in the<br />

Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) and the Arctic Council, and from<br />

2004 and until his retirement in 2009 he served as the first Executive Secretary<br />

of the Antarctic Treaty Secretariat in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He served as the<br />

ATCM Observer on the JC in 2005–2008.<br />

Helena Ödmark (AC) is a Swedish diplomat. After graduating from Stockholm<br />

School of Economics, she served in various positions at the Foreign Ministry and<br />

at diplomatic missions abroad, including as ambassador to Mozambique and<br />

Swaziland. In 2003, she was appointed “Senior Arctic Official” for Sweden in the<br />

Arctic Council. She also leads the Swedish delegations to the Antarctic Treaty<br />

Consultative Meetings and the Commission on the Conservation of Antarctic<br />

Marine Living Resources. Ambassador Ödmark chaired the Scientific Advisory<br />

Board for the Abisko Scientific Research Station of the Royal Swedish Academy of<br />

Sciences 2004-2008 and was a member of the Swedish national IPY committee. In<br />

2007, she took over from ambassador Vitaly Churkin of Russia as the AC Observer<br />

on the JC (Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, Sweden).<br />

Manfred Reinke (ATCM) is Executive Secretary of the Antarctic Treaty Secretariat<br />

in Buenos Aires, Argentina (since April 2009). He has a Ph.D. in marine biology<br />

and started his polar career at the Institute for <strong>Polar</strong> Ecology in Kiel, Germany.<br />

He worked at the Alfred Wegener Institute for <strong>Polar</strong> and Marine Research (AWI),<br />

in Bremerhaven, Germany, in 1986–2009 and was one of the designers of the<br />

‘Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data’ (PANGAEA) used<br />

by the World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences as a repository. He<br />

was a member of the SCAR ad hoc Planning Group on Antarctic Data Management<br />

and later of the Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management (JCADM) within<br />

SCAR; he also served on various European and international data management<br />

committees.<br />

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