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Nicole Bransome

Senior Officer

Nicole Bransome supports the efforts to protect Antarctica’s Southern Ocean, which focus on updating krill fishery measures to reflect the needs of the region’s krill predators, and 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 international marine policy and science efforts and collaborates with governments around the world to improve marine conservation outcomes.

Christophe Chevillon

Senior Manager

Christophe Chevillon directs Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy’s work in New Caledonia. He has nearly three decades of experience in New Caledonia, mainly in the public sector.

Emil Dediu

Officer

Emil Dediu focuses on outreach to the European Union and its member states in support of creating a network of marine protections in Antarctica’s Southern Ocean. He also supports the Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy’s work in the Mediterranean region. 

Katie Gray

Senior Associate

Katie Gray supports the Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy’s work in the Mediterranean region. Previously, Gray worked at Dow Jones as an assistant to the editors at The Wall Street Journal Europe and Financial News.

Bridget Hickey

Associate Manager

Bridget Hickey manages partnership support to advance the Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy’s global efforts to conserve marine ecosystems, including establishing large marine protected areas, protecting biodiversity and key migratory species, and safeguarding traditional cultures linked to the sea. Before joining Pew, Hickey worked with organizations dedicated to marine habitat restoration, sustainable tourism, and donor stewardship.

Andrea Kavanagh

Project Director

Andrea Kavanagh directs the partnership’s efforts to protect Antarctica’s Southern Ocean, one of the world’s last great wilderness areas, by focusing on international collaboration to establish a network of marine protected areas surrounding the continent and establishing ecosystem-based fisheries management measures for Antarctic krill.

Nicholas Kirkham

Senior Associate

Nicholas Kirkham works on Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy’s efforts to create a representative system of MPAs and improve fishing conservation measures in Antarctica’s Southern Ocean.

Camile Loth

Senior Associate

Camille Loth supports Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy's work in French Polynesia, New Caledonia, and the Mediterranean and outreach to the European Union and its member states.

Kayleigh Michaelides

Officer

Kayleigh Michaelides works on cross-cutting initiatives, including coordinating with key stakeholder groups and local and Indigenous communities. In addition, Michaelides supports regional marine protection efforts in the Eastern Tropical Pacific.

Jérôme Petit

Senior Manager

Jérôme Petit manages the Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy project’s work in the Mediterranean region and France. In doing so, he works with many local partners to develop and advance campaign strategies with the goal of helping to establish and improve a conservation network of effective marine protected areas in these regions.

Jen Sawada

Senior Manager

Jen Sawada provides strategic guidance and project management support for Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy. In that capacity, she focuses on campaigns that work to promote a conservation network of marine protected areas, ecological corridors, and fisheries management in the Eastern Tropical Pacific and Pacific.

Aline Schaffar

Senior Officer

Aline Schaffar focuses on the Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy’s work in New Caledonia. She has been a consultant in marine biology, studying humpback whales, marine mammals, and turtles, and has published a wide range of scientific articles and reports.

Samantha Suffety

Senior Associate

Samantha Suffety supports the Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy’s work in the Eastern Tropical Pacific and Western Pacific as well as engagement at international conferences and events. Before joining Pew, Suffety worked at the U.N. Environment Programme’s North America office, where she planned and implemented regional outreach initiatives and global campaigns, managed institutional partnerships, and supported the establishment of a partnership and business engagement unit.

Donatien Tanret

Senior Officer

Donatien Tanret manages the Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy’s efforts in French Polynesia. He collaborates with local governments, elected officials, and the community to work toward protecting French Polynesian waters and creating rāhui, a reference to the traditional Polynesian practice of restricting access to an area or resource to conserve it.