Collaborators
The Center for the Blue Economy cannot accomplish our mission alone.
The Center for the Blue Economy partners with like-minded academic and research institutions, U.S. and international organizations, and individual scholars to achieve its objectives. We rely on donors and grant making institutions fund our work, and engage the community with public events and lectures related to the Blue Economy. We cannot accomplish our work alone, and celebrate the global “ocean team.”
The Center for the Blue Economy Advisory Council
The volunteer Advisory Council helps to guide the center’s research and fundraising priorities. These dedicated professionals offer a wealth of knowledge and experience in ocean and coastal sustainability—from marine science to policy to business.
Michael Conathan
Ocean Policy Consultant
Jeff Dayton-Johnson (ex-officio)
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Institute, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
Nico De Golia
Director of Cloud Logistics Sustainability, Microsoft
Melissa Garren
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Working Oceans Strategies
Robin and Deborah Hicks
Trustees, Loker Foundation
Judith Kildow
Founder and Director Emeritus, National Ocean Economics Program
Geraldine Knatz
Professor of the Practice of Policy and Engineering, University of Southern California (USC) Price School of Public Policy, joint appointment with the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Peter Macy
Chief Business Officer, Blue Ocean Gear
Pawan Patil
Senior Economist, The World Bank
Dylan Todd Simonds
Chair, the Dylan Todd Simonds Foundation
The Center for the Blue Economy Senior Fellows
Senior Fellows are distinguished scholars and practitioners who work with the Center for the Blue Economy on research, internships, and fellowships for students, and on events that help the center achieve its mission.
Juliano Calil
Founder & Chief Scientist at Virtual Planet Technologies | TEDx Speaker | VR & AR Innovator | Environmental Scientist | Climate Action Advocate; Adjunct Faculty, Middlebury Institute of International Studies
David Helvarg
Author & Executive Director, Blue Frontier
Brendan P. Kelly
Science Director and Principal Investigator, Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH)
Philip (Phil) King
Associate Professor of Economics, San Francisco State University
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics, Center for the Blue Economy
Tracy Rouleau
President and Founder, TBD Economics, LLC
Mark Spalding
President, The Ocean Foundation
Visiting Scholars
The Center for the Blue Economy collaborates with Visiting Scholars, academics who are interested in producing original research that serves the Center’s mission. Visiting Scholars typically stay a minimum of six months to a maximum of 18 months, and are funded by their home universities.
Research Partners
The Center for the Blue Economy partners with many academic and research institutions to accomplish our mission, to provide real-world opportunities for CBE Summer Fellows, and to push forward the Blue Economy agenda.
Generous Donors
The Center for the Blue Economy was founded because of generous donors, and donor gifts remain the backbone of how we accomplish our mission. Please consider making a gift of any amount toward our goals of creating original research and providing free, open-access data for business, government and NGOs to make informed decisions and educating the next generation of ocean and coastal resource management leaders.
