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Susan Allen

Susan Allen

Manager, Our Ocean, Pew Environment Group

Susan Allen joined the Pew Environment Group to manage Our Ocean, a campaign to protect Oregon’s coastal legacy.

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Peter Baker

Peter Baker

Director, Northeast Fisheries Program, Pew Environment Group

Peter Baker joined the Pew Environment Group in 2007 as manager of the Northeast Fisheries Program.

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Adam Baske

Adam Baske

Officer, International Policy, Pew Environment Group

Adam Baske joined the Pew Environment Group in February 2010. He is an officer with International Policy, focusing on Pacific tuna fisheries and international fisheries governance.  

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Angela Bednarek

Angela Bednarek

Officer, Ocean Science Division, Pew Environment Group

Angela Bednarek manages the Pew Environment Group’s Ocean Science Division, where she works on science outreach to policymakers and decision makers.

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Uta Bellion

Uta Bellion

Director, European Marine Programme, Pew Environment Group

Uta Bellion joined the Pew Environment Group in 2006 as director of the European Marine Programme, which aims to strengthen the role of the European Union in stopping global overfishing and the destruction of the world’s oceans.

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Holly Binns

Holly Binns

Director, Southeast and U.S. Caribbean Fish Conservation Campaign, Pew Environment Group

Holly Binns joined the Pew Environment Group in 2008 as manager of efforts to protect ocean life and end overfishing in the Gulf of Mexico, the South Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.

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Heather Bradner

Heather Bradner

Manager, Global Ocean Legacy, Pew Environment Group

Heather Bradner joined the Pew Environment Group in February 2007 as manager of the Global Ocean Legacy project, which works to create large no-take marine reserves around the world.

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Geoffrey Brown

Geoffrey Brown

Senior Officer, Government Relations, Pew Environment Group

Geoffrey Brown joined The Pew Charitable Trusts in 2008. As a senior officer of government relations for the Pew Environment Group, he works with congressional staff to develop stronger climate and environmental policy.

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John Carey

John Carey

Director, Kimberley Conservation Project, Australia Program, Pew Environment Group

John Carey joined the Pew Environment Group in 2008 to manage the Australia Program’s conservation project in the Kimberley, a stunning and largely intact outback region in northwestern Australia.

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Jud Crawford

Jud Crawford

Science and Policy Manager, Northeast Fisheries Program, Pew Environment Group

Jud Crawford joined the Pew Environment Group in 2008 as science and policy manager for the Northeast Fisheries Program.

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Lee Crockett

Lee Crockett

Director, Federal Fisheries Policy, Pew Environment Group

Lee Crockett joined the Pew Environment Group in June 2007 as director of Federal Fisheries Policy.

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Phyllis Cuttino

Phyllis Cuttino

Director, Clean Energy Program, Pew Environment Group

Phyllis Cuttino is director of Pew’s Clean Energy Program, which advocates for national policies that promote the economic, environmental and national security benefits of the clean energy economy.

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Jane Danowitz

Jane Danowitz

Director, U.S. Public Lands Program, Pew Environment Group

Jane Danowitz joined the Pew Environment Group in 2002 as a senior officer responsible for the U.S. public lands protection program, which seeks to preserve America’s wilderness areas and undeveloped national forests through federal legislation and regulations.

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David Dreher

David Dreher

Manager, Campaign for America's Wilderness, Pew Environment Group

David Dreher joined the Pew Environment Group in 2010 when the Campaign for America’s Wilderness merged with Pew.

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Leslie Duncan

Leslie Duncan

Manager, Western Lands Initiative, Pew Environment Group

Leslie Duncan joined the Pew Environment Group in August 2011 as manager of the Western Lands Initiative, which seeks to advance meaningful long-term protection of the nation’s most ecologically significant federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

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Chris Flook

Chris Flook

Director, Global Ocean Legacy - Bermuda, Pew Environment Group

Chris Flook joined the Pew Environment Group in 2011 as director of the Global Ocean Legacy project in Bermuda.

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Alistair Gammell

Alistair Gammell

UK Director, Global Ocean Legacy, Pew Environment Group

Alistair Gammell joined the Pew Environment Group in 2009 as director of the Global Ocean Legacy campaign to designate the Chagos as a no-take marine reserve.

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Stephen Ganey

Stephen Ganey

Senior Officer, Regional Fisheries Initiatives, Pew Environment Group

Stephen Ganey joined the Pew Environment Group in 2007 as project director for the Regional Fisheries Initiative, which oversees work in regional marine and fisheries conservation.

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John Gilroy

John Gilroy

Program Director, Campaign for America's Wilderness, Pew Environment Group

John Gilroy joined the Pew Environment Group in 2010 when the Campaign for America’s Wilderness merged with Pew. He had been associate director of the Campaign for America’s Wilderness from its inception in 2002.

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Polita Glynn

Polita Glynn

Director, Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation, Pew Environment Group

Polita Glynn joined the Pew Environment Group in 2009 as manager of the Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation, which provides fellowships to outstanding natural and social scientists, researchers and others around the globe to support innovative projects aimed at developing and implementing solutions to critical challenges facing the world’s oceans.

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Rebecca Goldburg

Rebecca Goldburg

Director, Ocean Science Division, Pew Environment Group

Rebecca Goldburg joined the Pew Environment Group in 2008 as director of Pew’s Ocean Science Division, focusing on support for marine conservation research, including the Lenfest Ocean Program, the Sea Around Us project and the Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation.

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Michelle Grady

Michelle Grady

Director, Marine & Western Australia, Outback Australia Program, Pew Environment Group

Michelle Grady joined the Pew Environment Group in 2008 as manager of the Australia Program. Grady has worked for 18 years as a conservation advocate at the local, national and international levels; a managing director of nonprofit organizations; and campaign manager and senior policy adviser to government.

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Marilyn Heiman

Marilyn Heiman

Director, U.S. Arctic Program, Pew Environment Group

Marilyn Heiman joined the Pew Environment Group in January 2009 as director of the U.S. Arctic Program, which works to protect the Arctic Ocean and its marine life from the dangers of global warming, overfishing and drilling. In June 2010, she became director of the Offshore Energy Campaign.

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David Henry

David Henry

Manager, International Arctic Program, Pew Environment Group

David Henry joined the Pew Environment Group in 2009 as manager of the International Arctic program. The project promotes science and community-based conservation of North America’s Arctic Ocean and the resulting well-being of Arctic residents who rely on its natural wealth.

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Jill Hepp

Jill Hepp

Manager, Global Shark Conservation, Pew Environment Group

Jill Hepp joined the Pew Environment Group in 2009 as a manager for the Global Shark Conservation campaign, where she oversees a team of regional and country-based organizers around the world.

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Scott Highleyman

Scott Highleyman

Director, International Arctic Program, Pew Environment Group

Scott Highleyman joined the Pew Environment Group in 2009 to direct the International Arctic Program.

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Rachel Hopkins

Rachel Hopkins

Manager, Aquaculture Standards Project, Pew Environment Group

Rachel Hopkins, who joined the Pew Environment Group in April 2008, manages the Marine Finfish Aquaculture Standards Project, which advances the development of rigorous, performance-based standards for marine fish farming.

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Seth Horstmeyer

Seth Horstmeyer

Senior Field Officer, Pew Environment Group

Seth Horstmeyer joined the Pew Environment Group in 2008 as an officer in the field department and is now senior officer responsible for oversight of field operations in 25 states.

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Charlotte Hudson

Charlotte Hudson

Director, Lenfest Ocean Program, Pew Environment Group

Charlotte Hudson joined the Pew Environment Group in 2005, advancing to director of the Lenfest Ocean Program. In this position, Hudson works with marine research aimed at reversing the decline of the global marine environment.

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Eleanor Huffines

Eleanor Huffines

Manager, U.S. Arctic Program, Pew Environment Group

Eleanor Huffines joined the Pew Environment Group in 2009 as manager of the U.S. Arctic Program.

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Henry Huntington

Henry Huntington

Science Director, Arctic Program, Pew Environment Group

Henry Huntington joined the Pew Environment Group in 2009 as the science director for the International Arctic Program.

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Mathew Jacobson

Mathew Jacobson

Manager, International Boreal Conservation Campaign, Pew Environment Group

Mathew Jacobson joined the Pew Environment Group in 2008 when the National Environmental Trust merged with Pew. He develops and implements outreach and campaign strategies for boreal conservation, primarily in Québec.

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Julie Janovsky

Julie Janovsky

Manager, Reforming Industrial Animal Agriculture, Pew Environment Group

Julie Janovsky joined the Pew Environment Group in May 2011 as manager of the Campaign to Reform Industrial Animal Agriculture, which is working to move a broken, unhealthy, and unsustainable system of food production toward a model that is less damaging to the environment, rural communities, human health, and animal welfare.

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Steven Kallick

Steven Kallick

Director, International Boreal Conservation Campaign, Pew Environment Group

Steven Kallick joined the Pew Environment Group in 1997 as a program officer and is now director of the International Boreal Conservation Campaign, managing one of the largest and most successful projects in the Pew Environment Group’s portfolio.

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Andrea Kavanagh

Andrea Kavanagh

Director, Protecting the Deep Sea Campaign, Pew Environment Group

Andrea Kavanagh joined the Pew Environment Group in January 2008, as manager of the Salmon Aquaculture Reform Campaign. In January of 2011, she became manager of the Protecting the Deep Sea Campaign, a project dedicated to stopping the destructive practice of bottom trawling.

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Faith Kearns

Faith Kearns

Officer, Ocean Science Division, Pew Environment Group

Faith Kearns joined the Pew Environment Group in 2009 and is an officer with the Ocean Science Division, where she helps campaign staff develop and integrate scientific information using a variety of scientific, technical and communications approaches.

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Markus Knigge

Markus Knigge

Adviser, European Marine Programme, Pew Environment Group

Markus Knigge is policy and research director for the Pew Environment Group’s European Marine Programme. He is responsible for developing policy proposals, commissioning and managing research, and devising strategies for the dissemination of findings.

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Gerald Leape

Gerald Leape

Senior Officer, International Policy, Pew Environment Group

Gerald Leape joined the Pew Environment Group in 2008 as a senior officer focusing primarily on international marine issues. His responsibilities have included conserving krill, reforming salmon aquaculture production practices and significantly reducing illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing through a binding global treaty.

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Susan Lieberman

Susan Lieberman

Deputy Director, International Policy, Pew Environment Group

Susan Lieberman joined the Pew Environment Group in August 2009 as deputy director of International Policy. She leads an integrated program focused on treaties, regional fisheries management organizations and other intergovernmental organizations to achieve Pew’s marine conservation goals.

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Tim Mahoney

Tim Mahoney

Senior Officer, Campaign for America's Wilderness, Pew Environment Group

Tim Mahoney joined the Pew Environment Group in 2010 as a senior officer for the Campaign for America’s Wilderness (CAW).

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Christopher Mann

Christopher Mann

Senior Officer, Campaign for Healthy Oceans, Pew Environment Group

Christopher Mann joined the Pew Environment Group in 2007 and leads projects to develop science-based, precautionary standards for marine aquaculture and to advance federal legislation, implementing recommendations of the Pew Oceans Commission for ecosystem-based management of U.S. ocean waters.

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Jim Mathews

Jim Mathews

Manager, Campaign for America's Wilderness, Pew Environment Group

Jim Mathews joined the Pew Environment Group in 2010 when the Campaign for America’s Wilderness merged with Pew. Mathews has more than 25 years of experience working on environmental, natural resource and conservation issues in the public and private sectors.

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Mike Matz

Mike Matz

Director, Campaign for America's Wilderness, Pew Environment Group

Mike Matz joined the Pew Environment Group in 2010 when the Campaign for America’s Wilderness merged with Pew. As the director, Matz works to protect the nation’s remaining wildlands to ensure an enduring legacy of wilderness for future generations.

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Robert Mazurek

Robert Mazurek

Manager, Global Ocean Legacy, Pew Environment Group

Robert Mazurek joined the Pew Environment Group in November 2011 as manager of the Global Ocean Legacy project, which works to create large no-take marine reserves around the world. Mazurek is responsible for outreach and project management.

 

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Jay Nelson

Jay Nelson

Director, Global Ocean Legacy, Pew Environment Group

Jay Nelson joined the Pew Environment Group in 2006 as director of the Global Ocean Legacy project, which works to create large no-take marine reserves around the world.

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Amanda Nickson

Amanda Nickson

Senior Officer, International Policy, Pew Environment Group

Amanda Nickson joined the Pew Environment Group in 2010 to lead advocacy efforts with regional fisheries management organizations, the international bodies that govern the treaties regulating commercial fishing on the high seas.

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Patrick O'Leary

Patrick O'Leary

Manager, Australia Program, Pew Environment Group

Patrick O'Leary joined the Pew Environment Group in 2009. He focuses on strengthening Pew’s indigenous partnerships, enhancing environmental protection across Northern Australia and pursuing linkages between reducing greenhouse gas emissions and protecting biodiversity.

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Jon Owen

Jon Owen

Manager, Campaign for America's Wilderness, Pew Environment Group

Jon Owen joined the Pew Environment Group in 2010 when the Campaign for America’s Wilderness merged with Pew.

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Andi Pearl

Andi Pearl

Manager, Global Ocean Legacy, Pew Environment Group

Andi Pearl joined the Pew Environment Group in 2006 as a manager for the Antarctic Krill Conservation Project. In 2010, she moved to the Global Ocean Legacy project, where she is responsible for assessing future projects related to the campaign’s goal of protecting special places in the sea.

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Rupert Quinlan

Rupert Quinlan

Manager, Australia—Channel Country, Pew Environment Group

Rupert Quinlan has worked with the Pew Environment Group since March 2010 as manager, Channel Country campaign, in which he works with partner organizations to secure protection of Queensland’s rivers as part of the state’s Wild Rivers Act.

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Ken Rait

Ken Rait

Director, Western Lands Initiative, Pew Environment Group

Ken Rait became the Director of the Western Lands Initiative in September 2011. Ken joined the Pew Environment Group in 2010 as senior officer for the Campaign for America’s Wilderness. Rait is the former director of the Heritage Forests Campaign, an initiative that successfully advocated for the conservation of nearly 60 million acres of roadless, wild national forestlands.

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Matt Rand

Matt Rand

Director, Global Shark Conservation, Pew Environment Group

Matt Rand joined the Pew Environment Group in 2008, advancing to director of Global Shark Conservation. The campaign helped the island nations of the Maldives and Palau establish shark sanctuaries in their territorial waters, closing 590,000 square miles in the Pacific and Indian oceans to shark fishing.

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Joshua S. Reichert

Joshua S. Reichert

Managing Director, Pew Environment Group

Joshua Reichert heads the Pew Environment Group, which focuses on the problems of climate change, the preservation of large intact wilderness ecosystems and the protection of the global marine environment.

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Tom Rudolph

Tom Rudolph

Policy and Research Manager, Forage Fish Conservation Initiative, Pew Environment Group

Tom Rudolph joined the Pew Environment Group in 2011 as policy and research manager for the Forage Fish Conservation Initiative.  He works in three regions New England, the Mid-Atlantic, and the Pacific Coast on promoting precautionary management practices for forage fish in order to ensure the dietary needs of marine predators are met. 

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Karen Sack

Karen Sack

Deputy Director, International Ocean Conservation, Pew Environment Group

Karen Sack joined the Pew Environment Group in September 2009 as director of International Ocean Conservation.

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Debbie Salamone

Debbie Salamone

Officer, Southeast and Caribbean Fish Conservation Campaign, Pew Environment Group

Debbie Salamone joined the Pew Environment Group in 2009 as a communications manager focused on ending overfishing in the Gulf of Mexico, the South Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean.

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Doug Scott

Doug Scott

Manager, Campaign for America's Wilderness, Pew Environment Group

Doug Scott joined the Pew Environment Group in 2010 when the Campaign for America’s Wilderness merged with Pew.

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Paul Shively

Paul Shively

Manager, Pacific Fish Conservation Program, Pew Environment Group

Paul Shively joined Pew in January, 2011 as the campaign manager for the Pacific Fish Conservation Program where he works to suspend the expansion of fisheries on forage stocks until an ecosystem-based approach can be implemented.

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Velma Smith

Velma Smith

Officer, Government Relations, Pew Environment Group

Velma Smith joined The Pew Charitable Trusts in 2008. As an officer of government relations for the Pew Environment Group, she supports a range of programs including public lands and mining reform, protection of Arctic resources and reform of industrial animal agriculture.

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Thomas St. Hilaire

Thomas St. Hilaire

Manager, U.S. Public Lands Program, Pew Environment Group

Tom St. Hilaire joined the Pew Environment Group in August 2009. As part of the U.S. public lands team, he is responsible for securing strong protections for roadless areas in national forests and reforming the outdated law that governs the nation’s hardrock mining industry.

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Karen Steuer

Karen Steuer

Deputy Director, Government Relations, Pew Environment Group

Karen Steuer joined Pew in 2008 as director of government relations for the Pew Environment Group.

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Barry Traill

Barry Traill

Director, Australia Program, Pew Environment Group

Barry Traill joined the Pew Environment Group in 2007 as director of the Australia Program, a joint program of Pew and the Nature Conservancy. He works with partner organizations to obtain protection for large wilderness areas in Australia on land and sea.

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Sylvia Troost

Sylvia Troost

Manager, Federal Fisheries Policy Project, Pew Environment Group

Sylvia Troost joined Pew in 2010 as manager for the Federal Fisheries Policy Project.

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Tom Wathen

Tom Wathen

Deputy Director, Lands, U.S. and Canadian Oceans and Ocean Science, Pew Environment Group

Tom Wathen joined the Pew Environment Group in June 2008 as a deputy director, managing programs in North American ocean conservation, wilderness protection and marine science.

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Thomas Wheatley

Thomas Wheatley

Manager, Gulf Surface Longline Campaign, Pew Environment Group

Tom Wheatley joined the Pew Environment Group in August 2009 as manager of the Gulf Surface Longline Campaign.

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Jeffrey Wise

Jeffrey Wise

Director, Global Campaign to End Illegal Fishing, Pew Environment Group

Jeffrey Wise joined the Pew Environment Group in 2008 and is now the Director of the Global Campaign to End Illegal Fishing. This campaign works to ensure a sustainable future for our oceans by combating illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing around the world.  Prior to this, Jeff served as the manager of Pew's Global Conservation Initiative.

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Joan Yang

Joan Yang

Senior Officer, United Nations Representative, Pew Environment Group

Joan Yang joined the Pew Environment Group in 2010 as a senior officer for International Policy. She coordinates Pew’s work at the United Nations with a focus on marine issues: preservation of biodiversity, ocean governance and sustainable use of marine species.

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Imogen Zethoven

Imogen Zethoven

Director, Coral Sea Campaign, Global Ocean Legacy, Pew Environment Group

Imogen Zethoven joined the Pew Environment Group in 2007 as project manager for the Coral Sea Campaign and, two years later, became director of the program to establish the world’s largest fully protected marine park.

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