Mr Gabino GONZALEZ

Head of Office, Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean Sea (REMPEC)

Mr Gabino Gonzalez Deogracia joined the Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean Sea (REMPEC) in June 2006 as Programme Officer and assumed the duties of Head of Office of REMPEC, as from 1 February 2015. He gained twenty (20) years of international experience including eighteen (18) years within the framework of the Regional Seas Programme of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), through assignments to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), for three (3) regional implementing bodies in the Wider Caribbean (RAC/REMPEITC-Caribe, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles), in West and Central Africa (IMO/IPIECA Global Initiative Project (GI WACAF)) and currently in the Mediterranean at REMPEC, supporting over seventy (70) governments in ratifying, transposing, implementing and enforcing international maritime conventions related to the prevention of, preparedness for and response to marine pollution from ships.