I work with leaders whose decisions shape coasts and ocean health—across cities, government, NGOs, investors, and business—to turn ambition into implementation. The work is practical and decision-grade: setting clear goals, defining credible measures of progress, aligning incentives and stakeholders, and building pathways that endure beyond a single election cycle or funding round.
My work is focused on one question: how do we move from protection alone to restoration at the scale this moment demands?
In practice, my work sits at the intersection of:
Policy and governance — marine protection, fisheries management, enforcement, and accountability
Cities and coastal development — targets and roadmaps, public transparency, and credible standards for progress
Markets and corporate engagement — reducing greenwashing risk and making restoration decision-ready for capital and risk teams
Technology and innovation — remote sensing and digital measurement (MRV) that make outcomes visible, verifiable, and financeable
Public narrative — storytelling that builds durable public permission and the political will to act
Over the years, I’ve worked across marine protected areas, fisheries and sustainable seafood, coastal pollution and runoff, oil spill impacts, and field-based research and documentation—always with the same aim: make ocean recovery legible, credible, and achievable.
How I Can Help
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I advise leaders whose decisions shape coasts and ocean health as they move from protection alone to restoration at scale. My work is designed for execution: clarifying the real objective, defining decision-grade measures of progress, aligning stakeholders around a credible pathway, and building the conditions for implementation that holds up over time. Engagements include strategic advisory, leadership workshops, and keynote speaking.
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City leadership and public agencies; investors, philanthropies, and boards; NGOs and multilateral institutions; and corporate leadership teams operating where oceans, coasts, and risk intersect.
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I help leaders translate ambition into durable outcomes—through clear targets, practical roadmaps, and transparency that earns trust. My work typically spans fisheries and marine protection, coastal resilience and nature-positive development, measurement and accountability, and cross-sector partnerships structured to deliver rather than merely announce.
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Advisory / Partnerships
Advisory / Partnerships
For leaders seeking strategic counsel on restoration and coastal decisions—clarity on goals, a credible plan, aligned stakeholders, and a pathway that can be implemented and sustained.
Speaking
For keynotes, firesides, panels, and moderation—grounded in evidence and lived experience, designed to motivate and to equip audiences with a clear framework for action.
Press / Media
For interviews, podcasts, and media requests—including approved bios, photos, and press materials.
Oceans 2050
We co-founded Oceans 2050 with Professor Carlos Duarte (Chief Scientist) on the basis of his landmark Nature paper Rebuilding Marine Life, which sets out the evidence that ocean abundance can be restored within a generation.
Oceans 2050’s work focuses on translating that science into strategies and tools that can scale—especially restoration approaches that can be measured, financed, and implemented in the real world. One example is our Global Seaweed Carbon Project, recognized with the Keeling Curve Prize and published in Nature Climate Change, quantifying carbon burial beneath seaweed farms across a global study.
We are also building new initiatives and platforms designed to accelerate restoration at scale, including the Blue Cities Alliance.
Blue Cities Alliance
We founded the Blue Cities Alliance to help coastal and river cities turn ocean and waterway recovery into a core part of urban success—measurable, publicly visible, and durable. The premise is simple: cities make decisions every day that shape water quality, coastal resilience, and marine life; the opportunity is to align those decisions around clear targets and credible progress, so restoration is treated as essential civic infrastructure, not a side project.
In June 2025, I signed the Blue Cities Manifesto with Athens Mayor Haris Doukas, making Athens the first city to formally join the Alliance. Since then, we’ve been developing the Athens pilot and shaping the model in practice—what a “Blue City” means, what gets tracked publicly, and what credible participation looks like.
We’re now opening conversations with additional cities and mission-aligned investors who want to help build and scale this next chapter.
Oceana
For 14 years, I’ve served as a Senior Advisor to Oceana, the largest international advocacy organization dedicated solely to ocean conservation.
Oceana advances science-based policies in countries that control one-third of the world’s wild fish catch, with a core focus on ending overfishing and rebuilding abundant, biodiverse oceans.
In my advisory role, I lend strategic support and public voice to campaigns that strengthen fisheries management (including science-based catch limits), expand and enforce marine protections, reduce harmful practices and subsidies, and combat illegal fishing—so ocean recovery is not just promised, but delivered.