John Englander
John Englander has a diverse ocean background ranging from science, to entrepreneur, to nonprofits.
He is CEO of The International SeaKeepers Society, a nonprofit organization that has pioneered a system for monitoring the ocean and climate. His interest in ancient sea levels and paleoclimatology began with his university degree, with a dual major in marine geology and economics. However a passion for scuba diving and a knack for business took him to the Bahamas, where he took over a struggling dive operation and made it the largest resort scuba facility in the world, the Underwater Explorers Society. Englander’s writing and lectures about the marine environment caught the attention of Jacques Cousteau.
In 1997 the diving pioneer asked him to take over the ailing Cousteau Society, which ended abruptly with Cousteau’s death months later. John has an estimated 5,000 dives including leading expeditions to the high arctic and to Lake Baikal in Siberia. Englander has become an expert on issues of climate change, both from the academic aspect as well as with fact-finding visits to Greenland and the polar regions.