Christopher Wilcox Email & Phone Number

Felton, Ca, Us

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

I lead a consultancy focused on technology and analytical tool development in the marine natural resources space. We are focused on reducing the footprint of human activities, such as fisheries and waste management, on marines systems. We work with partners to develop solutions integrating novel approaches to data collection and analysis, connection of results to management needs and policy contexts, and design and fundraising for programs of work. Our current projects include developing industry led solutions to reduce the environmental impact of fishing, using statistical models to improve risk identification and compliance action in fisheries and marine protected area management, DNA based approaches to monitoring and surveillance in fisheries, and building software, technologies, field programs and analytical tools to support baseline monitoring and intervention to reduce plastic pollution in the environment.

I headed the Minderoo Foundation's work on marine conservation and fisheries. The foundation is a modern philathropy, which uses a mixed model of funding external organizations, commissioning specific work through consultants, and conducting work internally through our technical staff. I served in the executive group for the Oceans program, as one of 3 directors reporting to the executive. I was responsible for creating and supporting a high performing team working productively and efficiently across our three modes of impact. The foundation transitioned to a matrix structure, and as such I oversaw our internal engagement with other focal areas and enabling services. I led the strategic development of our work, targeted at improving the status of fisheries globally and achieving 30% protection of the world’s marine estate by 3030. I directed the program's internal research and intervention programs, which ranged from developing a global assessment of fishery status and management across 142 countries to major interventions to expand and improve marine protected areas across the Indo-Pacific.Minderoo is a values driven organization, and thus modelling those values and leading from them were key aspects of my role. I advanced Minderoo’s mission by role modelling collaboration, value alignment, best practice and an impact focus outcome orientation.

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

I was in a science leadership role at CSIRO for 17 years. I led a range of major initiatives, including a large program tagging and tracking of marine animals, work on incentives and offsets in marine conservation, a program on dynamic spatial management of marine users, a major program on plastic pollution, and a large team working on understanding and ending illegal fishing. I served in a number of management and leadership roles, including overseeing major internal funding pools, developing and managing large inter-institutional programs, leading strategy development for major components of the institution's research and impact programs, and fundraising with major donors.

Phd, Conservation Biology

Master Of Science - Ms

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Ecology And Evolutionary Biology