International Marine Protected Areas Congress to Focus on Implementing Global Commitments

Peter Baker Director

Peter Baker directs Pew’s marine conservation work in Canada and also works with Pew’s global marine habitat team. The work includes protecting special habitats, encouraging ecosystem-based fisheries management, and addressing the entanglement of right whales in fishing gear. Since joining Pew, Baker has led efforts to establish science-based annual catch limits, protect forage fish, and safeguard sensitive marine habitats, including deep-sea corals.

Leah Baumwell Principal Associate

Nicole Bransome Senior Officer

Nicole Bransome works on Pew’s Protecting Antarctica’s Southern Ocean project, which focuses on conserving an area that encompasses 10% of the world’s ocean through the creation of a network of large-scale marine protected areas (MPAs) around Antarctica.

Johnny Briggs Director

Johnny Briggs leads Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy’s global efforts to improve marine conservation outcomes.

Nichola Clark Senior Officer

Nichola Clark leads Pew's work related to the United Nations treaty on marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ) as part of the Trusts’ campaign to address gaps in ocean governance through meaningful international cooperation.

Ryan Dolan Manager

Ryan Dolan joined The Pew Charitable Trusts' Protecting Antarctica’s Southern Ocean campaign in 2013. His work focuses on advocating for marine protected areas and fully protected marine reserves in the region.

Francisco Solís Germani Project Director

Francisco “Pancho” Solís Germani directs Pew’s efforts in his native Chile, where he works with partner organizations and other stakeholders to protect Patagonia, one of the world’s most pristine wilderness areas, with land and waters spanning a region as large as New Zealand.

Carolina Jarpa Officer

Carolina Jarpa’s work at Pew’s Chilean Patagonia project focuses on supporting the local coalition’s efforts to advance unprecedented conservation policies and collaborations among organizations working to protect Patagonia. She is currently working to expand and deepen our relationships with critical partners and government agencies.

Masha Kalinina Senior Officer

Masha Kalinina works on a crosscutting team supporting diverse initiatives across Pew’s environment portfolio, including Enduring Earth, The Blue Nature Alliance, and others, primarily focused on designing and executing international political strategies to deliver campaign objectives.

Emily Klein, Ph.D. Officer

Emily Klein, Ph.D., supports Pew’s work on conserving and sustaining marine and freshwater systems and their vital connections to people. She has expertise in fisheries science and marine ecology, as well as in innovative analytical and modeling tools.

Jason Landrum, Ph.D. Senior Officer

Jason Landrum, Ph.D., is responsible for identifying new project ideas and managing grant-making within the Lenfest Ocean Program’s wildlife and ecosystems portfolio.

Shubash Lohani Senior Director

Shubash Lohani directs global conservation initiatives for Pew, including the Blue Nature Alliance and Enduring Earth.

Jim Palardy, Ph.D. Project Director

Jim Palardy leads Pew’s work to identify research, data, policies and other types of knowledge that can help ensure the integrity of Pew’s environmental programs. This work includes developing new conservation projects and supporting ongoing environmental efforts with the goal of uncovering emerging science that can inform evidence-based policy recommendations.

Matt Rand Senior Director

Matt Rand joined Pew as director of what is now the Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy Project in 2013. He works with local communities, governments, and scientists around the world to protect and conserve some of the Earth’s most important and unspoiled marine environments.

Makarena Roa Senior Officer

Makarena Roa’s work at Pew focuses on engaging and building bottom-up relations with local communities and authorities, Indigenous peoples, and regional nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Chilean Patagonia. Doing so is critical to achieving outcomes for conservation that are based on local people’s involvement in the future of their natural heritage and protected areas.

Winnie Roberts Director

Guinnevere (Winnie) Roberts directs Pew’s conservation support and conservation science teams, focusing on securing evidence-based policy outcomes that support healthy and resilient ecosystems and coordinating Pew’s engagement in multilateral forums and meetings, including the Convention on Biological Diversity and the United Nations General Assembly. Roberts also supports the development and implementation of Pew’s conservation projects, helping advance their objectives and guiding alignment across Pew’s environmental portfolio.

Tom Rudolph Senior Officer

Tom Rudolph works with partners on Pew’s conservation Canada project to advance marine conservation and sustainable resource management, including protected areas and sustainable fishing, with a focus on coastal and offshore British Columbia.

Victoria Sheppard Senior Officer

Victoria Sheppard helps to lead Pew’s conservation Canada project in Ottawa (on traditional unceded territory of the Anishnaabeg people), where she works with partners to ensure progress toward Canada’s marine conservation goals, from marine protection to sustainable fishing to low-impact shipping. Previously, Sheppard spent two years as a manager with Pew’s ending overfishing in northwestern Europe and international fisheries northeast Atlantic campaigns.