Project Professor Yutaka Michida re-elected as IOC/UNESCO Chairperson

Update: 07. 14, 2025

Jul. 14, 2025

The election of Officers of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) took place at the 33rd Session of the IOC/UNESCO Assembly at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris from June 25 to July 3, 2025. Project Professor Yutaka Michida from the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute and the Special Presidential Envoy for the U.N. Ocean Decade, The University of Tokyo, was re-elected as the Chairperson for the next term of office.

The IOC was established in 1960 as an organization with functional autonomy within UNESCO, and is the only organization in the United Nations that carries out intergovernmental cooperation, planning, and coordination of research, observation, data exchange, and programs to support developing states relating to the world’s oceans. There are currently 152 member states.

Project Professor Michida’s term of office will be approximately two years to the end of the next ordinary session of the Assembly to be held in late June 2027.
 

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Professor Yutaka Michida elected as Chairperson of IOC/UNESCO
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Project Professor Yutaka Michida from the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute and the Special Presidential Envoy for the U.N. Ocean Decade, The University of Tokyo