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Leadership

Ocean Central by Wave is developed in collaboration with Ode, a data and design agency for the environment, with expert guidance from Alexandra Cousteau, Professor Carlos Duarte, and Dr. Ralph Chami.

Leadership

  • Wave is an initiative of the FII Institute focused on collective action for ocean regeneration. Founded by FII Board Member H.R.H. Princess Reema Bandar Al-Saud, Wave is guided by its chief experts: H.R.H. Prince Sultan bin Fahd bin Salman Al Saud, Alexandra Cousteau, Professor Carlos Duarte, and Dr. Ralph Chami. Wave partners with private, public, and not-for-profit organizations to achieve its goal of ocean regeneration within a human generation.

  • The Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute is a global nonprofit foundation driven by data with an investment arm and one agenda: Impact on Humanity. Global and inclusive, FII fosters great minds from around the world and turns ideas into real-world solutions in four critical areas: Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Robotics, Education, Healthcare and Sustainability.

  • H.R.H. Princess Reema Bandar Al-Saud

    Founder, Wave
    Member of the Board of Trustees, Future Investment Initiative Institute

    Her Royal Highness Princess Reema Bandar Al-Saud is the first woman to serve as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to the United States of America, and President of the Women’s Committee and a member of the Board of Directors for the Saudi Olympic and Paralympic Committee. Throughout her career HRH Princess Reema has made a central focus of her attention the advancement of causes that address collective wellbeing, with a focus on the areas of health, environment, and the advancement of women.

    Having worked to further the cause of Breast Cancer awareness in the Kingdom, including helping to set a Guinness World Record by forming the World’s Largest Human Awareness Ribbon in Riyadh in 2015, Princess Reema founded the Catmosphere Foundation to help raise awareness for the issues threatening the world´s big cat populations, and by extension all life. Notable milestones included over 190,000 people participating in the flagship ´Catwalk´mass mobilization campaign globally over three years, and the curation of the proclamation of an annual International awareness Day for the Arabian Leopard by the United Nations in 2023.

    Most recently, HRH Princess Reema extended Catmosphere´s focus to form the collective action platform Wave, dedicated to restoring a thriving ocean by 2050. Wave, powered by Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute, seeks to accelerate regenerative ocean action globally by harnessing data-led insights, sparking global awareness and engagement, catalyzing bluetech innovation, and advancing ocean-centric thought leadership.

  • H.R.H. Prince Sultan bin Fahd bin Salman Al Saud Al Saud

    Chief Activator, Wave
    Chairman of SWSDF

    Chairman of the Saudi Water Sports and Diving Federation from 2020, Prince Sultan is passionate about contributing to the future of Saudi Arabian growth in the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf. H.R.H. is a Kauffman Fellow, through which he contributes to the VC space, as well as being Chairman of his family office, Eirad Holding. Since 2021 he has also been a Board Member of the Saudi Olympic and Paralympic Committee.

  • Alexandra Cousteau

    Chief Navigator, Wave
    Co-founder of Oceans 2050

    Alexandra Cousteau, granddaughter of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, is an award-winning advocate for ocean restoration and abundance. As a leading figure in ocean activism, Cousteau collaborates with world leaders across sectors to influence, convene and mobilize action to achieve measurable outcomes for more abundant oceans. She is president and co-founder of Oceans 2050 and host of the Ocean Central podcast.

  • Professor Carlos Duarte

    Chief Scientist, Wave
    Chief Scientist at Oceans 2050

    Carlos M. Duarte is the Tarek Ahmed Juffali Research Chair in Red Sea Ecology at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia. He also serves as chief scientist for various global initiatives, including Wave, Oceans 2050, Ocean Us, E1Series, and Blue Green Future. Duarte has authored more than 1,000 scientific papers and is ranked as the world’s top marine biologist and the 12th most influential climate scientist by Reuters.

  • Dr. Ralph Chami

    Chief Economist, Wave
    Co-founder of Blue Green Future

    Ralph Chami is a financial economist and co-founder of Blue Green Future and Rebalance Earth. After 25 years at the International Monetary Fund, where he was assistant director, he developed a novel approach to tackling climate change and biodiversity loss by repositioning species such as whales and elephants as allies in sequestering carbon, securing ecosystems, and generating income for local communities. He experienced the majesty of whales firsthand in the Sea of Cortez in 2017.

  • Dan Hammer

    Head of Product
    Managing Partner at Ode

    Dan Hammer is a managing partner at Ode, a data and design agency for the environment. He is the winner of the inaugural Pritzker Environmental Genius Award; a member of the Brain Trust at XPRIZE; and a senior technical advisor at Earth Alliance. He previously served as a senior policy advisor in the Obama White House and a presidential innovation fellow at NASA. He was also the chief data scientist at the World Resources Institute, where he co-founded Global Forest Watch.