Our Team

Plastic Oceans Team

Julie Andersen

CEO & Co-Founder

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Craig Leeson

Chief Evangelist

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Mark Minneboo

Regional Director, Latin America

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Salvador Ávila

Executive Director, Mexico

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Andrea Torres

Regional Director, Europe

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Viviana Pinto

Executive Director, Chile

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Liv Ward

Director of Sustainable Communications

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Charles Rolsky

Director of Science

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Samantha Pickering

Director of Education

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Sue Argüelles

BlueCommunities Manager

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Ana Hanhausen

Assistant Director, Mexico

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Francesca Gattolin

Social Media Manager, Europe

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Pau Hanono

Communications Coordinator, Mexico

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Iván Navarro

Operations Manager, Chile

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Ambassadors

Matthew Modine

Actor & Environmentalist

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Merijn Tinga

Plastic Soup Surfer, Biologist, Artist

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Carlos Vives

Singer & Actor

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Louie Schwartzberg

Filmmaker

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Denise Lira-Ratinoff

Interdisciplinary Artist

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Sarah Ferguson

Founder, Breathe Conservation

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Global Advisors

Malcolm Wood

Entrepreneur, Environmental Filmmaker and United Nations Ambassador. Co-Founder of hospitality group Maximal Concepts.

Craig Leeson

Founder of Leeson Media International and Ocean Vista Films. Chairman of 1 Shot Hong Kong Film Festival. Asia correspondent for Seven Network and an international Correspondent for Al Jazeera Media Network.

William Pfeiffer

Executive Chairman and Co-Founder, Globalgate. Global Advisor to WTA, and Senior Advisor to Lionsgate Entertainment.

Schuyler (Sky) M. Moore

A partner in the corporate entertainment department of Greenberg Glusker LLP, practicing entertainment, corporate, and tax law.

Roman Carel

Founder and CEO of Athena Advisors.

Keyur Patel

Chairman and Managing Director, Fuse Capital.