VISIONARIES. EXPERTS. PROTECTORS.

TIFFANY SCHAUER

Founder & Executive Director,
Our Children’s Earth Foundation

Tiffany founded OCE in 1998 after many years in various environmental justice and litigation positions specializing in enforcement and compliance. In addition to her private sector attorney experience with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, which represented industry in environmental litigation, she was appointed to the Hearing Board of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD). Prior to her work in the Bay Area, Tiffany worked at the Federal Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC in a variety of key roles. She earned her J.D. from Catholic University in Washington, DC. and her B.A. from San Diego State University. Tiffany is admitted to the State Bars of California, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia.

Tiffany served in various environmental regulatory roles prior to founding OCE in 1998. Ms. Schauer’s varied positions, including serving as an enforcement attorney at the Environmental Protection Agency, working as a Senior Attorney at a major environmental law firm, and adjudicating Clean Air Act permit disputes at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District Hearing Board. During the course of her career, she discovered that the attacks on environmental regulatory standards and enforcement program funding decisions are not occurring in statehouses and legislative sessions, where the glare of public attention would be too great. Instead, the attacks most often occur in bureaucratic back rooms, out of the public eye, in obscure government departments where polluting industries can influence the decision-making process without risking the wrath of public opposition. The form of the threat is as basic as it is destructive — our environmental laws simply are not being enforced adequately to ensure public safety and basic environmental protections. Since 1998, Tiffany has led OCE to enforce some of the largest environmental law violation actions in the United States.  

Over the past 10 years, Tiffany has expanded OCE’s efforts beyond regulatory citizen enforcement to include communicating the issues of government corruption, abuse of power, and needed transparency by addressing these issues in documentary film.  Tiffany spearheaded the initiative to bring OCE’s message to the storytelling genre of film through collaborating on many breakthrough documentaries including, Total Denial, Garbage Dreams, Island President, The C Word, Death by Design, How to Change the World, Sempre Fi, Last Animals, and Youth v. Gov.

“Our earth’s marine species and marine habitat areas are critically important, and extremely fragile. MMF’s relentless research, breakthrough peer-reviewed publications, community advocacy, and international coordination, have been critical in establishing the baseline science needed to safeguard our marine giants and the last truly wild places in our oceans.  I see MMF as one of the world’s most fearless, effective and financially efficient marine science organizations of our time.” 

WESLEY PAUL

Founder & Executive Chairman,
NextGen Hydrogen.

Wesley Paul is an investor and technologist active in a number of businesses principally focused on sustainable energy, property technology, advanced pathogen detection and sanitisation, healthcare and the food industry. He is a co-founder of NextGen Hydrogen currently developing significant green hydrogen projects around the world, Chairman of the Board of a world-leading pathogen sanitisation business and CEO of his own property technology company. 

He was a previous Chairman of the Board of Marine Megafauna Foundation, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Armouries Museums in the UK, a member of the Advisory Boards of The Royal United Services Institute, University of Durham Global Security Institute and has held a number of other Board seats across a range of companies, charities and other institutions in different industrial sectors. 

He is currently working with a leading UK University to launch a new medical school and a human-centric artificial intelligence initiative. Wes was previously a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan & Co. based out of London and New York where he worked for 25 years and held a variety of senior management positions after a successful career as a World No.1 ranked portfolio manager including Global Head of Fixed Income & Debt, Foreign Exchange, Emerging Markets, Hedge Funds and finally as Global Head of Investments where he had oversight over all products and assets under management across JPM’s wealth business. Wes is a keen conservationist and is critically focused on developing technology solutions to reduce the impact of human activities on the planet and its endangered species.

“I am delighted to re-join Andrea and Simon at the Marine Megafauna Foundation as an Ambassador to the charity. The brilliant research work that MMF performs around the world is key to understanding how we are impacting our marine environments and acts as an important source of information for critical conservation work. As someone who now spends most of my time developing ESG solutions to the complex and convergent challenges that humanity faces across all environments the MMF team have my full support and I am excited to help them to support their activities and increase their impact even further.”

MARC GIRARD

Marc was born and raised in Geneva, Switzerland. He studied finance at the University of Geneva and worked in banking for 13 years before he became an independent portfolio manager in 2000. His first diving experience was in 1971 and from that moment he was hooked on the marine environment. Marc regularly travels and dives with his family around the world.

“I first met Andrea and learned about MMF in 2014 during a diving trip in Mozambique. Instantly convinced by their mission and values, I was impressed by the professionalism with which Andrea leads her team. Sharing further diving experiences with Andrea, I could witness the contagious passion she shows in every minute of her MMF life. This passion combined with the effort she invests in educating the different communities around her makes me confident that the creatures we love are under good protection.”