Rob Williams is a marine conservation biologist and co-founder of Oceans Initiative. He serves on the editorial boards of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Journal of Zoology, and Animal Conservation and has been a member of the scientific committee of the International Whaling Commission since 2000. Rob is a former Marie Curie Fellow at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and in 2015 he was named a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation.