Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy is CEO (a.i.) of the World Ocean Council, and co-founder of Okhtapus Ltd and its nonprofit affiliate O Lab. An Ocean Fellow at the Center for Ocean Policy and Economics at Northeast Maritime Institute, he is also an advisory committee member and BlueSwell mentor for SeaAhead, and founded Four Bands Community Fund on the Cheyenne River Lakota Indian Reservation in 2000. Previously Global Director of Policy and Investments at the Resilient Cities Network, he co-created the Urban Ocean Program and co-founded the Racial Equity through Resilience Community of Practice. Through Precovery Labs, he serves clients including RISE, Ocean Conservancy, and NDN Fund, working at the intersection of ocean resilience and urban, island, Indigenous, and coastal contexts. He is WEDG-certified, a former Capitol Hill Ocean Week advisory board member, and an active documentary and fine art photographer.