Meet our chairs
Dália Reis
Current position
Background
Role in RCG
Josefine Egekvist
RCG NANSEA (2023 – 2025)
jsv@aqua.dtu.dk
Current position
Senior Consultant at Technical University of Denmark, National Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU Aqua).
Working with commercial fisheries data analysis and advice. Co-chair of RCG ISSG on Metier and transversal variable issues. Member of several international working groups (RCG, STECF FDI, WGCATCH, WGSFD, WGSFDGOV, RDBES core group, WGRDBESGOV).
Background
Has been working with fisheries data under the DCF since 2004, and have been involved in international work through ICES working groups and workshops, where she has been chair of WGSFD, WKTRADE, WKTRADE3, WKSSFGEO) and STECF FDI. Graduated as MSc in Geography in 2001.
Role in RCG
Is co-chairing RCG NANSEA and also co-chairing the RCG ISSG on Metier and transversal variable issues, which she has been chairing since 2019. Member of RCG ISSG on Small-Scale Fisheries.
Rita Vasconcelos
Current position
Background
Role in RCG
Maciej Adamowicz
RCG Baltic (2021-2024)
madamowicz@mir.gdynia.pl
Current position
Senior specialist in the National Marine Fisheries Research Institute in Gdynia, Poland. Responsible for the development of databases and applications, fisheries data analysis and data transmission. Involved in designing the national programme for fisheries data collection. Member of several international working groups: RCG Baltic, STECF FDI, WGCATCH, WGRDBES-GOV.
Background
Graduated from the University of Gdańsk with a master’s degree in the field of Informatics and Econometrics. Developed data analysis skills at international training courses and workshops. Completed postgraduate studies in Data Science. Experienced in the R environment, programming and database development.
Role in RCG
Involved in the regional coordination of data collection in the Baltic Sea since 2013. Member of several RCG intersessional subgroups dealing mainly with data analysis: Transversal issues, Data Quality, End-user and RCG. RCG Baltic representative in WGRDBES–GOV. Co-chair of RCG Baltic for the period 2022-2023.
Irek Wójcik
RCG LDF (2020-2023)
iwojcik@mir.gdynia.pl
Current position
Head of Department of Logistics & Monitoring at National Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Gdynia, Poland. National Correspondent (DCF) since 2015.
Background
Msc Eng. marine fisheries, biologist. In charge of DCF in Poland since 2011.
Role in RCG
Chair. Coordinator of joint sampling programmes for the EU long distance vessels fishing for small pelagics in the CECAF and SPRFMO areas.
Maksims Kovsars
RCG LDF (2024-2027)
maksims.kovsars@bior.gov.lv
Current position
Background
Role in RCG
Jurgen Mifsud
Current position
Background
Role in RCG
Heidi Pokki
RCG ECON (2022-2023)
heidi.pokki@luke.fi
Current position
Heidi Pokki works in the Natural Resources Institute Finland as a Senior Scientist and Group Manager in the Bioeconomy accounting group in Statistical Services Unit. She is involved in the economic and social data collection of the Finnish fleet, aquaculture, and fish processing sectors.
Background
Heidi has a Doctor’s Degree on Agriculture and Forestry including dissertation in Environmental Economics (fisheries) and Master’s degree on Economics and Business Administration in the field of Economics. She works as a fisheries economist and has been involved in the economic data collection of fisheries since 2010.
Role in RCG
Heidi will be co-chairing the RCG ECON with Irina Davidjuka in 2022 and with some new candidate in 2023. She will be co-ordinating and facilitating the RCG ECON meetings in 2022-2023 period and participating in the ISSG work for RCG ECON.
Hans van Oostenbrugge
RCG ECON (2023-2024)
Hans.vanOostenbrugge@wur.nl
Current position
Hans van Oostenbrugge is senior fisheries economist at Wageningen Economic Research. He has over 25 years of experience in fisheries research, and more than 20 year in fisheries economics and fisheries management. He has been actively involved in the Dutch data collection program for economic and social data from the fisheries and aquaculture sector.
Background
Trained as a fisheries biologist and having done a Ph-D in fisheries management he has a broad knowledge of fisheries and fisheries management issues. Since 2001 he has been actively involved in data collection and research projects in the field of fisheries economics and has also lead the Dutch group of fisheries economists.
Role in RCG
Hans will be co-chairing the RCG ECON with Heidi Pokki in 2023 and with some new candidate in 2024. He will be co-ordinating and facilitating the RCG ECON meetings in 2023-2024 period and participating in the ISSG work for RCG ECON.
Beatriz Guijarro
RCG Med&BS (2022-2023)
Current position
Beatriz
Guijarro is a Researcher in the Balearic Islands Oceanographic Centre (Spanish
Institute of Oceanography IEO – CSIC). Her research is focused on the
assessment of demersal species, on the population dynamics, biology and
influence of environmental factors on demersal species and ecosystem and on the
assessment of technical measures for provision of scientific advice for
management.
Background
She holds a Ph.D. in Marine Ecology, with a thesis on the population
dynamics and assessment of deep water decapods exploited by the bottom trawl
fleet from the Balearic Islands. She has been involved in the national data
collection, management and use of data in the fisheries sector to support for
scientific advice since 2005.
Role in RCG
She co-chaired the 2022 RCG Med and BS with Jurgen Mifsud (Malta) an
will co-chair the 2023 RCG Med and BS with Emmanuel Tessier (France). In
addition, she will participate in the 2023 RCG Med and BS and chair of the
MEDITS Steering Committee.