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Governance, Ocean, People, Prosperity, Community

Qin received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Macau in 2025. With an academic transition from a science background in high school to global studies and language education, she earned her bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature from Sun Yat-sen University. In 2016, during the Rio Olympic Games, she joined the University of São Paulo in Brazil as an exchange student, sparking her long-term research interest in international relations development studies.

Her doctoral research focused on ocean governance and marine policy, with an emphasis on personal behavior on top-down ocean policy. Building on this foundation, Qin is currently serving as an intern at the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (IOC-WESTPAC), where she contributes to regional programmes that advance the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.

Having visited and worked across 11 countries in the Americas, Asia, and Oceania, Qin brings an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective to international collaboration, particularly at the intersection of science, policy, and capacity development.

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Ocean/Sea/Marine

Ocean comes from the Latin ōceanus, which itself derives from the Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós), the name of the mythological river believed to encircle the world.

The word sea originates from the Old English sǣ, which is related to Old High German sēo and Old Norse sær, reflecting a Germanic linguistic root associated with large inland or coastal waters.

In contrast, marine has a strictly Latin origin, derived from marinus (“of the sea”), from mare meaning “sea.” While ocean and sea developed as geographical terms in different linguistic traditions—classical Greek/Latin vs. Germanic—marine emerged as a later scientific and technical adjective used especially in academic, legal, and policy discourse.