Maria Pia Benosa is a Depositary and Legal Officer within the Legal Affairs Office of the International

Maritime Organization (IMO). Previously she was an Ocean Law and Policy researcher at the Centre

for International Law at the National University of Singapore, and a Legal Officer for the Institute for

Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea of the University of the Philippines. In the latter capacity, she

helped assist Philippine government agencies in various initiatives relating to ocean governance and

maritime dispute resolution.
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Ms. Benosa obtained her LL.M. in National Security Law from Georgetown University in 2018 under a

Fulbright grant, following her completion of the Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe Fellowship at the UN

Division for Ocean Affairs and Law of the Sea. She also taught Public International Law and Local

Government Law courses at the University of the Philippines College of Law.

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