DR. MUHAMMAD TAUFAN

Dr. Muhammad Taufan is Official of the Directorate of Legal Affairs and Territorial Treaties, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia (MoFA). His responsibility in the current working unit centre around maritime boundary delimitation issue, ocean affairs, and air and space law issues. He has worked as a counsellor/United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) 6th committee expert at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Indonesia to the UN in New York between 2019 and 2022. In 2021, Taufan was elected by the Meeting of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (SPLOS) as the 31st Vice President of SPLOS. He also served as Vice-Chair of the ad hoc committee on the Indian Ocean, UNGA (2021- 2022), and coordinator of the draft resolution on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disaster (PPED), 6th committee UNGA (2020-2022). He holds a Doctor of Philosophy from Flinders University, Master of Law from IMO-International Maritime Law Institute, and Bachelor of Laws from Diponegoro University.

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