Mr. Peter PISSIERSSENS

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Gender	male
Position	Head, IOC Project Office for IODE, Oostende, Belgium and IOC capacity development coordinator
Institution	UNESCO / IOC Project Office for IODE [view]
Groups	IODE IODE staff IODE Staff - Ostend Project Office (Head, IOC Project Office for IODE) IODE SG-OTGA (IODE Manager) IOC DIM advisory group IODE SG-ODP IODE SG-OceanDocs IODE SG-ICAN (IOC/IODE) ICAN admin IODE SG-OceanExpert (Member SG) SG-OceanKnowledge (OKn) (Member) IODE Management Group (IODE Secretariat)
Nationality	Belgium

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Tel	+32 59340158
Website	http://www.iode.org
Address	Wandelaarkaai 7 8400 Oostende Belgium

Notes	Originally a marine biologist from the Free University of Brussels, Peter Pissierssens moved to Kenya in 1985 and developed the regional marine information network for eastern Africa (RECOSCIX-WIO). He also worked at UNEP Nairobi before joining the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission in 1989, again in Kenya. He moved to IOC headquarters in Paris, France in 1992, where he took on the marine information management activities for the IOC's International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE). In 2000 he took over as Head of IOC's Ocean Services. In November 2007 Peter moved to Belgium as the Head of the IOC Project Office for IODE in Oostende, which is also the IODE Secretariat.

Created on 6 Sep 2004
Last updated on 11 Apr 2017 by Mark VAN CROMBRUGGE