Linwood Pendleton

Linwood Pendleton (born July 20, 1964), a Franco-American environmental economist, is the Executive Director of the Ocean Knowledge Action Network [https://futureearth.org/networks/knowledge-action-networks/ocean/] and formerly the Senior Vice-President for [https://foundation.oceandata.earth/about Science at the Centre for the 4th Industrial Revolution]. Previously, he was the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) [https://www.worldwildlife.org/experts/linwood-pendleton/ Global Oceans Lead Scientist]. Since October 2014, Pendleton has served as International Chair in Marine Ecosystem Services at the [http://www.labexmer.eu/en Laboratory of Excellence] and [http://www-iuem.univ-brest.fr/en/ European Institute for Marine Studies] (IUEM - University of Western Brittany). He is also a senior fellow at Duke's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions (NIEPS) and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Duke University Marine Laboratory, part of NIEPS. He previously served as the Director of Ocean and Coastal Policy for the Nicholas Institute (2009-2013) and was the founder of the Marine Ecosystem Services Partnership. Pendleton was the Acting Chief Economist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from 2011-2013.

Pendleton has collaborated with conservationists worldwide including at the WWF, The Nature Conservancy, Environmental Defense Fund, NRDC, and he served for nearly ten years on the Board of the Conservation Strategy Fund. He served on the Science Advisory Committee of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, GEO Blue Planet steering committee, the Blue Carbon Finance Working Group, and the OBIS science advisory committee. Pendleton has served on several government and scholarly advisory boards and committees, including the California Marine Life Protection Act Initiative, as part of the statewide Science Advisory Team and Central Coast Subteam. He currently sits on the Editorial Board of the [http://cbe.miis.edu/ ''Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics''] (JOCE).

His interests are now on building bottom-up networks to support ocean professionals and scientists working to co-design science for sustainable development. Provided by Wikipedia