Philip Chou Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Develop new global initiatives and partnerships. I lead the Transparent Oceans Initiative, which reveals the scale and impact of global industrial fishing fleets, catalyzing policy change to protect the oceans and fish-reliant communities.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Advise Oceana staff and partners around the globe in developing initiatives and campaigns to sustainably manage fisheries, protect critical marine ecosystems, and advocate for equitable ocean governance.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Led policy work in Philippines, China, and Hong Kong and in international fora, Convention on Migratory Species and CITES. Responsibilities include strategy development, contract and grant management, communications.
• Illegal wildlife trade enforcement and species identification training workshops for the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES);
• International campaign to list threatened sharks and rays under the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS);
• Domestic policy reform campaign in Hong Kong to regulate the unsustainable shark fin trade;
• Legislative campaign in the Philippines to enact a national shark and ray conservation act; and
• Shark fin demand-reduction campaign in Mainland China that partnered with more than 100 Chinese large enterprise companies.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Advised sustainable business practices and marketing strategies in the seafood sector.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Directed the Seafood Choices Alliance and Seafood Summit, which engages the private, public, and NGO sector around the world to find market-based solutions for the most pressing issues in fisheries and aquaculture.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Coordinated technical support and capacity building teams from the Washington DC headquarters to support ecotourism, carbon offset, and protected areas management projects in the Mountains of Southwest China Biodiversity Hotspot for CI’s China Regional Program offices in Beijing and Chengdu.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Managed projects for the National Wind Coordinating Committee (NWCC), a national level multi-stakeholder collaborative mandated to develop an economically, politically, and environmentally sustainable market for commercial wind energy in the United States.

South Lake Tahoe, CA, USA

Coordinated an international exchange program on natural resource management policy and watershed ecology for graduate students from Russia and the United States in the Lake Tahoe (California) watershed.

Carmel, CA USA

Monitored and inspected conservation easements on land trust property in Big Sur, California and surrounding areas. Oversaw maintenance and booking of the land trust’s lodge in Mittledorf Preserve.

San Francisco, CA USA

Managed Pacific Rim environmental news list serve and developed guidelines for an association of sustainable eco-tourism businesses in the Russian Far East.

Vladivostok, Russia

Taught and developed education programs at the Academy of Young Marine Biologists, a regional center for marine science and environmental education in the Russian Far East.

Master’S Degree, International Environmental Policy, Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Returned Peace Corps Volunteer scholar and Center for East Asian Studies graduate assistantNonprofit management.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Biology; International Studies W Concentration In East Asia Studies, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: NCAA Divison III Tennis, Club Ultimate Frisbee, TriBeta National Biolgical Honor SocietyNatural history and.