Secretariat-Board

The Secretariat of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC) represents 32 full member organizations around the world - the ASOC Council - whose members pay dues or provide significant in-kind services to the ASOC campaign team.

Jim Barnes, Executive Director. A co-founder of ASOC in 1978, Jim received his BA at Northwestern in 1966 and his law degree from the University of Michigan in 1970. Currently living in Villamblard, France, Jim has devoted the past thirty-eight years to working with environmental organizations around the world. He received the International Environmentalist of the Year award from the National Wildlife Federation in 1991, the Order of the Golden Ark from the Dutch Royal Family’s foundation in 1998, and the Sierra Club’s Earth Care award in 2004.

Claire Christian, Assistant to the Director and Webmaster. Claire received an M.A. in International Affairs at American University, School of International Service in May 2008. She worked as Program Assistant at the National Council for Science and the Environment in Washington, DC from December 2003 – May 2006, and has worked with ASOC for the past two years.

Deidre Zoll, Assistant to the Director. Deidre’s academic background is in Environmental Policy and Planning, receiving an M.A. in Global Environmental Politics at American University. Previously she worked as an Administrative Secretary at the University of Alaska Anchorage and then as an Undergraduate Admissions Counselor and Recruiter at Alaska Pacific University. Deidre has assisted ASOC for the past three years.


ASOC Board of Directors

Chair:
Gerry Leape, Pew Charitable Trusts, USA
GLeape@pewtrusts.org

Vice-Chair:
Denise Boyd, Australian Conservation Foundation, Australia
d.boyd@acfonline.org.au

Treasurer:
Scott Hajost, USA
scotthajost@yahoo.com

At-Large Members:

William Eichbaum, World Wildlife Fund, USA
bill.eichbaum@wwfus.org

Juan Casavelos, Fundacion Vida Silvestre, Argentina
cambioclimatico@vidasilvestre.org.ar

John Grandy, Humane Society of the US, USA
blkduck@ix.netcom.com

Michele Perrault, Sierra Club, USA
Michele.Perrault@sierraclub.org

Sarah Duthie, Greenpeace International, Netherlands
Sarah.Duthie@uk.greenpeace.org

Barry Weeber, Ecowatch, New Zealand
ecowatch@paradise.net.nz

Janet Belkin, USA

Scott A. Hajost, Center for international Environmental Law (CIEL), USA
scotthajost@yahoo.com USA

Of Counsel:

David J. Bederman, Emory University, USA
lawdjb@law.emory.edu