Our Team

Ambassadors

Paula Radcliffe

Paula Jane Radcliffe, MBE (born 17 December 1973) is a British long-distance runner. She is a three-time winner of the London Marathon (2002, 2003, 2005), three-time New York Marathon champion (2004, 2007, 2008), and 2002 Chicago Marathon winner. She has held the Women’s World Record time of 2:15:25 for the marathon since 2003.

Alexandra Zeiner

Alexandra Magalhães Zeiner is a researcher with a Marine Biology degree from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. She has worked on various environmental projects in Austria, Brazil, Croatia, The Netherlands and Canada, mostly related to marine mammals and environmental issues.

Émilie Fer

Émilie Fer, born on February 17, 1983, in Saint-Maurice, is a French sportswoman practicing kayak slalom. She became an Olympic champion on August 2, 2012 in London and a World Champion on September 15, 2013 in Prague.

Christophe Pinna

Christophe Pinna is a multi-time World Champion in Karate (WKF). He has created the Physical Activity program Adapted "CAPACITY CARE", intended for elderly in loss autonomy. To date, this program is provided in more than 230 nursing homes in France and is highly recognize for its therapeutic effect.

BAS

BAS is one of the worlds most highly acclaimed wildlife and nature artists. The Art of BAS receives worldwide recognition from museums, Royalty, Governments, galleries, critics and collectors of fine art. An innate sense of design and composition, emphasising light and colour, is utilised to create a fine art original BAS oil painting.

Adrián Miramón

Miramon not only cares for the ocean and its marine life but is also the: Three-time world champion of the Costal Rowing , Trime European Sea Rowing Champion and 17 times champion of Spain , CDR Kaiku and Santa Pola-Malaga-Sestao.

Jonas Skattum Svegaarden

Jonas is the CEO of Katapult Ocean, the world’s most active venture fund investing in ocean impact companies globally. Katapult Ocean is the only no-animal harm fund globally, and its investment strategy catalyzes millions of capitals towards a sustainable blue economy.

Carissa Cabrera

Carissa Cabrera is a marine biologist, conservation storyteller, and ocean climate advocate. For the past 10 years, Carissa has focused on ocean recovery efforts related to endangered species, ecosystem restoration, conservation financing, community outreach, and environmental literacy. Co-founder of Futureswell, an environmental storytelling platform

Marianne H Rasmussen

Marianne Rasmussen earned her PhD on white-beaked dolphin sounds at the University of Southern Denmark. Since 2007, she has directed the University of Iceland's research center in Húsavík, and since 2017, she's been a research professor there. With 80 scientific publications, she has supervised 45 master's and 5 PhD students. She also teaches a summer marine mammal field course and serves on the board of SVIS.

Youth Ambassadors:

Viktoria Iskina

Melanie Hoefnagel

Andrea Marvin

Lavinia Bianca Liclican

Ian Christensen

Mikkel Nielsen

Lily Brogaard Talbo

President and Founder:

  • BERIT LEGRAND

Vice President:

  • LOUIS LEGRAND

Advisors:

  • MARINE BIOLOGIST: ALEXANDRA ZEINER, BELEN GARCIA OVIDE
  • LEGAL/ LAWYER: MAY SNEDSBOEL
  • EDITOR: CATHERINE MAIER, JACQUELINE BOND, ANGELO LEGRAND, TINO LEGRAND, JACQUI SYNDERCOMBE
  • SOCIAL MEDIA: VIKTORIA ISKINA
  • IT: DIMITRI CORSI
  • GRAPHIC DESIGNER: MARCO MCAVA

TAF UK:

Trustees

Head of operations

  • BERIT LEGRAND

Editor

  • JACQUELINE BOND

TAF DK:

Trustees

  • ANGELO LEGRAND
  • MARIANNE HANSEN
  • BERIT LEGRAND
  • LOUIS LEGRAND

Head of operations

  • ANGELO LEGRAND

TAF Norway:

Trustees

  • ISABELLE JULIARD THOMPSEN
  • CATO AALL
  • BERIT LEGRAND
  • MELANIE BROOKS

Head of operations

  • ISABELLE JULIARD THOMPSEN
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