The OceanCanada Advisory Board provides independent intellectual advice and support to OCP. The Board works at arm's length from the project and monitors its overall progress in relation to established milestones and timelines. It also provides guidance on ways to strengthen and sustain the partnership – by helping to attract new funding, recruit new partners and stakeholders, improve knowledge mobilization and extend and internationalize research. The Board consists of senior scholars as well as community and national leaders with expertise across OCP's areas of intellectual inquiry.

Dr. Rosemary E. Ommer
- Advisory Board Chair
- University of Victoria
- ommer@uvic.ca

Dr. Fikret Berkes
- Advisory Board Member
- University of Manitoba
- Fikret.Berkes@ad.umanitoba.ca

Christopher Harvey
- Advisory Board Member
- MacKenzie Fujisawa LLP
- charvey@maclaw.bc.ca

Russ Jones
- Advisory Board Member
- Council of the Haida Nation
- russ.jones@haidanation.com

Dr. Gordon Munro
- Past Advisory Board Member
- University of British Columbia
- gordon.munro@ubc.ca