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Milko Schvartzman served as the Campaign Coordinator for Greenpeace Argentina from 1999 to 2003, and later for Greenpeace International until 2015. During his tenure, he actively participated in on-board campaigns on Whaling, Fishing, and Pollution in Antarctica, the North Sea, South Pacific, and South Atlantic. Additionally, he conducted regional campaigns in Argentina, Belize, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Uruguay. Mr. Schvartzman also played essential roles as a policy and spokesperson at major global summits and organizations, including the Rio+20 Summit in 2012, UN BBNJ in New York from 2013 to 2015, the International Whaling Commission from 2001 to 2014, and the World Trade Organization in 2017. Notably, he contributed his expertise to journalism as a researcher at the New York Times from 2017 to 2020 and fulfilled the role of Oceanosanos Project Coordinator from 2018 to 2019. 

Currently, Milko Schvartzman holds the positions of Ocean Policy Coordinator at the Círculo de Políticas Ambientales and Maritime Affairs Commission Advisor at the Chamber of Deputies in the Congress of Argentina. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional in Buenos Aires, Argentina.