About Brad Ack

Brad Ack in an environmental innovator with nearly 30 years of sustained, creative contributions for a more sustainable and biologically diverse world.

His work has spanned geographies from the tropical forests of Latin America, to the high deserts of the American southwest, to work throughout the global ocean.  Brad has worked for both government and NGOs at senior levels, in concert with the private sector, designing and implementing innovative conservation and sustainability initiatives.

Brad recently launched Ocean-Climate Restore, an initiative focused on the Oceans-Climate nexus as a critical element in addressing climate disruption. OCR will seek to create new intellectual and financial investments in ocean/climate restoration, and to source and develop innovations to repair and restore critical components of the ocean system and take advantage of the oceans capacity to capture and store carbon in new ways.

Previously Brad was Senior Vice President in charge of the Oceans program at WWF-US; Regional Director Americas for the Marine Stewardship Council; and Executive Director of the Puget Sound Action Team, Office of the Governor in the State of Washington.  He has held other conservation leadership positions in the Southwest US and started his career working in Latin America to integrate sustainable resource use into large parks and protected area projects.

Brad is passionate about the need to recognize the climate emergency we are living in and to take action across a number of fronts to address and arrest the dangerous curves we are seeing, with a focus on the ocean.