Mark J. Spalding

Mark J. Spalding wakhala Purezidenti wa The Ocean Foundation kuyambira mu 2003. Pansi pa utsogoleri wake, izi zakula kwambiri kuchoka pa bajeti ya $200,000 pachaka kufika pa bajeti ya $18 miliyoni pachaka, chifukwa adayika patsogolo kutsogolera ubale wa anthu ndi nyanja kupita ku tsogolo labwino kudzera mu njira ndi mapulojekiti osiyanasiyana osankhidwa mosamala. Iye ndi Senior Fellow ku Center for the Blue Economy ku Middlebury Institute of International Studies komanso membala wa Expert Group wolangiza High-Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy. Kuphatikiza apo, amagwira ntchito ngati mlangizi wa Rockefeller Climate Solutions Fund, Rockefeller Global Innovation Strategy, ndi UBS Rockefeller Ocean Engagement Funds (ndalama zosungiramo ndalama zomwe sizinachitikepo). Mark ndi membala wa UNEP Guidance Working Group wa Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Initiative. Iye adalemba nawo "Transatlantic Blue Economy Initiative," pulojekiti yogwirizana ya Wilson Center ndi Konrad Adenauer Stiftung. Mark adapanga pulogalamu yoyamba ya blue carbon offset, SeaGrass Grow. Kuyambira mu 2018 mpaka 2023, adagwira ntchito ngati membala wa Ocean Studies Board ndi US National Committee for the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (USA). Adagwiranso ntchito mu Sargasso Sea Commission kuyambira mu 2015 mpaka 2024. Ndi katswiri pa mfundo ndi malamulo apadziko lonse lapansi a nyanja, ndalama ndi ndalama za chuma cha buluu, mgwirizano wa nyanja ndi nyengo, ukadaulo wa buluu, komanso kuthandiza anthu am'mphepete mwa nyanja ndi m'madzi.

Mark, yemwe wakhala akuchita zamalamulo komanso ngati mlangizi wa mfundo kuyambira mu 1986, anali wapampando wa Environmental Law Section ya California State Bar Association kuyambira 1998 mpaka 1999. Kuyambira 1994 mpaka 2003, Mark anali Mtsogoleri wa Environmental Law and Civil Society Program komanso Mkonzi wa Journal of Environment and Development ku Graduate School of International Relations & Pacific Studies (IR/PS), University of California, San Diego. Kuwonjezera pa kuphunzitsa ku IR/PS, Mark waphunzitsa ku Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD's Muir College, UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, ndi University of San Diego's School of Law. Anali katswiri wofufuza ku UCSD's Center for US-Mexicon Studies, Sustainability Institute - Donella Meadows Leadership Fellow, komanso SeaWeb Senior Fellow. Mark anathandiza kupanga zina mwa kampeni zofunika kwambiri zosamalira nyanja m'zaka makumi atatu zapitazi. Ndi wotsogolera wodziwa bwino ntchito komanso wopambana padziko lonse lapansi. Iye amabweretsa chidziwitso chake chachikulu pankhani za malamulo ndi mfundo zokhudza kusunga nyanja mu njira zopangira ndalama za Foundation komanso njira zowunikira. Ali ndi digiri ya BA m'mbiri ndi Honours kuchokera ku Claremont McKenna College, JD kuchokera ku Loyola Law School, Master's mu Pacific International Affairs (MPIA) kuchokera ku IR/PS, ndi Wines of the World Certification kuchokera ku Cornell University. Mark ali ndi digiri ya International Commercial Arbitration (American University, Washington College of Law). Anamaliza maphunziro ake ku British School of Motor Racing ndi Porsche Track Experience Precision Course. Kulumikizana kwa Mark ndi nyanja kunayamba ali mnyamata wamng'ono akukulira ku Central Valley ku California; nthawi iliyonse akamadutsa m'mphepete mwa nyanja ndipo Pacific ikayamba kuwonekera, zinali ngati mpweya wabwino.