Our Team

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.”

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.”