Committee Co-Chairs
- Jaimie Dick, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
- Ross Cuthbert, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
- Deborah Sparks, Invasive Species Centre – ICAIS Secretariat, Canada
Honorary Conference Chair
- Frances Lucy, Atlantic Technological University, Ireland
Program Development Committee
- Coming soon!
Committee Members
Africa
- Julie Coetzee – Rhodes University, South Africa
- Ryan Wasserman – Rhodes University, South Africa
- Takudzwa Comfort Madzivanzira – University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
Europe
- David Aldridge – University of Cambridge, UK
- Joost Backx – Rijkswaterstaat, The Netherlands
- Ana-Cristina Cardoso – European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Italy
- Ross Cuthbert – Queen’s University Belfast, UK
- Jaimie Dick – Queen’s University Belfast, UK
- Arjan Gittenberger – GiMaRIS, The Netherlands
- Phillip Haubrock – Senckenberg Research Institute, Germany
- Frances Lucy – Atlantic Technological University, Ireland
- Leo Nagelkerke – Wageningen University, Aquaculture & Fisheries Group, The Netherlands
- Roar Sandodden – Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Norway
- Sander Smolders – Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, The Netherlands
- Hugo Verreycken – INBO, Belgium
- Elena Tricarico – University of Florence, Italy
- Frank Collas – Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Michal Grabowski – University of Lodz, Poland
- Teun Everts – INBO, Belgium
Americas
- Alejandro Botolus – Grupo de Ecología en Ambientes Costeros, IPEEC-CONICET, Argentina
- Morelia Camacho-Cervantes – Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
- Sam Chan – Oregon Sea Grant, USA
- Stephen Phillips – Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, USA
- Deborah Sparks – Invasive Species Centre, Canada
- Jason LeBlanc – Nova Scotia Fisheries and Aquaculture, Canada
- Sarah Bailey – Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Canada
- Olivier Morissette – Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada
- Alison Morris – Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters, Canada
- Tera Shewchenko – Invasive Species Centre, Canada
- Jean Vitule – Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
- Jeff Brinsmead – Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Canada
Asia Pacific
- Deborah Hofstra – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand
- Darren Yeo – National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Meng Xu – Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, China
- Aiban Zhan – Chinese Academy of Science, China
- Dangen Gu, Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences
- Danish Ahmed – Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait

