Dr. Thauan Santos is a professor at the Graduate Program in Maritime Studies of the Brazilian Naval War College (PPGEM/EGN) and coordinator of the Blue Economy Group (GEM). He holds a BA in Economics (UFRJ), MA in International Relations (PUC-Rio), and a Ph.D. in Energy Planning (COPPE/UFRJ), with postdoctoral research on Blue Economy at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (CBE/MIIS, USA) and in Economic Sciences at the University of Bologna (DSE/UniBo, Italy). He is a member of the Pool of Experts of the UN Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (UN DOALOS) and the Global Ocean Accounts Partnership (GOAP). His research focuses on the blue economy, ocean governance, marine spatial planning (MSP), energy, and Latin America.