Chantal Line Carpentier joined UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)'s Division on International Trade and Commodities (DITC) in 2014, after serving as Chief, UNCTAD New York Office of the Secretary-General. She brings to the Branch over 25 years of work experience in international trade, and environmental and agro-economics.

Prior to working with UNCTAD, she supported the Commission on Sustainable Development and served as Major Groups (of non-State actors) coordinator for the UN Rio+20 Conference and the SDGs negotiations at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). She also supported the sustainable consumption and production and sustainable agriculture negotiations.

As Head of the North American Free Trade Agreement Commission for Environmental Cooperations, she lead work on the nexus of environment, economy, and trade. She also served as Agro-environmental Policy Analyst for Winrock International, and post-Doctoral fellow/Brazil office manager for the International Food Policy Research Institute.

She has an extensive list of publications on sustainable agriculture, trade and environment, sustainable consumption and production, financing for sustainable development, stakeholder engagement, global value chains, micro, small and medium enterprises, and economic empowerment of women.

She obtained a PhD. in Agro-Environmental Economics from Virginia Technology and MSc. and BSc. from McGill University.

Ludovic Arnaud is an Associate Economic Affairs Officer in the Trade, Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Branch of UNCTAD, focusing on ocean economic data and analysis. He previously worked on supporting UNCTAD in its development of databases on trade in ocean goods and services and trade in biodiversity-based products, as well as on the organisation of the informal Working Group on trade and biodiversity statistics and the 5th UN Ocean Forum.

He holds a PhD in International Development from the University of Oxford, focused on the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and a Master’s from the University of Cambridge.

His research has been published in New Political Economy, World Politics Review, and Oxford Analytica. His upcoming book, ‘Hostile Trade Renegotiation: The Paradox of USMCA’ will be published with Georgetown University Press.

Damien Andre Prescod holds a Master of Science in Telecommunications from the SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Utica New York, possesses a wealth of climate mitigation and adaptation experience attained during an eleven year tenure at the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology & Hydrology (CIMH) where for six years he served as representative for the British Commonwealth Territories as a CIMO Metrology Expert for Region IV of the WMO.

He holds a Diploma in Global Environmental Policy from the University of Geneva and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) attaining certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI). He is pursuing his Doctorate in Environmental Management specializing in Oceanographic Metrology with particular focus on the Accuracy of Ocean-centric Meta-Data and its use in Oceans & Climate Policy.

He manages and coordinates multiple initiatives within the Oceans Economy Unit at Export Barbados (BIDC) focusing on private and public sector collaboration for Blue Food Trade, primarily focusing on Marine Finfish Aquaculture, trade of naturally caught Yellow Fin and Big Eye Tuna as well as Seamoss and Seaweed cultivation in Barbados. He is also Managing Director of Ocean Ciara Environmental Consultancy Services, pioneering the Barbados’ first Real Time In-situ Marine Health Monitoring Network.

Domagoj Baresic carries out research on the intersection of the marine environment, society and technology to understand sustainability transitions.

He uses mixed research methods to explore the nature of transition pathways necessary to reach a low carbon shipping future. His research interests span policy, political economy, and socio-technical transitions. He developed the MarSTF conceptual framework with the aim of making sustainability transitions literature more empirically suitable for the study of fuel transitions in shipping.

He holds a PhD in Energy and Transport from the University College London (UCL) as well as a Master of Philosophy in Environmental Policy and a Master of Arts in Natural Sciences, both from the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining UCL, he worked for several years in the private sector as an analyst looking at policy and financial drivers shaping global energy markets and emission trading schemes.

Onno Hoffmeister joined the UN Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) Statistics Service in 2015.

He previously worked as statistician at the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nation (FAO) and Eurostat and as researcher at the University of Hamburg and the German Institute for Economic Research. He was engaged as consultant for the GIZ and the German Federal Ministry of Economics in capacity building ("twinning") projects of the European Commission. 

In 2024, he led UNCTAD's comprehensive assessment of the impact of mid-term IMO GHG reduction measures on States and in 2023 the development of the UNCTAD - World Bank Trade-and-Transport Dataset. He coordinated the statistical work behind many of UNCTADs online datasets including on ocean trade and maritime transport.

He holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Viadrina and has 25 years of experience in statistics, economic analysis and capacity building. He published in the Journal of Shipping and Trade, the Statistical Journal of the IAOS, Agricultural Economics, the Review of Income and Wealth and other peer-reviewed journals. He is member of the UN Committee of Experts on Business and Trade Statistics, the International Association for Official Statistics, and the German Association for Social Policy.