Ben Fitzpatrick
Dr Ben Fitzpatrick is a coral reef ecologist from Perth Western Australia.
He is Director of Oceanwise Australia, an organization originally established in 1998 to advance the conservation of Ningaloo Reef and Exmouth Gulf.
He is an adjunct Research Fellow at the UWA Oceans Institute and Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative Partner.
Through his role as Leader of the Coastal and Marine Specialist Group for the IUCN Commission for Ecosystem Management, he now contributes his expertise to solving coastal and marine conservation challenges globally.
