Dr Zainal Arifin Director, Research Centre for Oceanography The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) Zainal Arifin has been serving as the director of Research Centre for Oceanography – LIPI since 2011. Beside his services to LIPI, He is also active at various fora such as, National Steering Committee for GEF-Small Grant Project (2010 – present), Advisory Board of Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)-UNESCO/Westpac Region (2013 – present), and Steering Committee for SIBER (Sustained Integrated Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research). He received his MSc from Dalhousie University Canada and doctoral degree from Simon Fraser University, Canada in field of Biosciences. His research interest is on ecotoxicology, biodiversity and conservation.