Director, Market Data & Systems Transparency, Oceans Futures
Mark Richardson is Director of Market Data and Systems Transparency for the WWF-US Ocean Futures team. In this role, Mark leads WWF’s efforts to bring data-driven solutions, traceability, and transparency to global seafood supply chains and other sectors of the blue economy. Mark also helps lead WWF’s engagement with the financial sector to identify and mitigate ocean ESG risks in lending, investment, and insurance portfolios, including the development of tools to better locate and assess supply chain risks. Mark also directly manages partnerships with WWF-US corporate partners and supports the development of pre-competitive collaborations to reach goals for sustainable seafood market transition.
Prior to joining WWF, Mark has worked for more than a decade with various NGOs and government agencies on domestic and international ocean conservation and sustainability issues, with a focus on improving marine protected area management and enforcement, strengthening ocean transparency, and reducing risks of illegal fishing. More recently, he worked for the Pew Charitable Trusts on its global campaign to end illegal fishing, where he led a partnership with INTERPOL and supported development of a satellite data platform to monitor global fishing vessel activity. Mark has a B.A. in German from SUNY Binghamton, and master’s degrees in public administration from Syracuse University and in Sustainable Development & Conservation Biology from the University of Maryland.
