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Dr. Mathias Jonas, Secretary General, IHO oices

I think it is generally agreed that across all maritime science, engineering ing processes like digitalization, im- these are times of heightened geo- and administration domains. The princi- provement of technology and increased political unrest. If you would like to, ple of multilateralism is the basis for the relevance of the maritime issues in please discuss how this impacts the coordinating role of the IHO to maintain terms of exploitation, preservation and work that IHO conducts. internationally harmonized responsive- modelling of natural processes for di-

As pointed out by the revised strategic ness to the above challenges. saster management. The difference I can plan, the Member States face a growing make in my role is to control the inter- request for maritime geoinformation Under your tenure, what do you relation of the goals and targets of the beyond surface navigation, a rapid de- count as IHO’s greatest accomplish- IHO with these overarching processes velopment in technology to survey the ment, and why? and to propose and conduct ways to in- oceans and charting technologies, the In general, IHO activities are ongoing tensify our contributions. Notable steps increase in exploitation and exploration transformation processes which have in this context happened within the last of the vulnerable maritime ecosystems, started under my predecessors and will two years were: the digitalization of all processes and not end with my term. These processes • The completion of ECDIS car- the compelling need for collaboration are interdependent with other overarch- riage requirement in 2018 November/December 2019 14

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