Meg Caldwell

Meg Caldwell joined the Packard Foundation’s Conservation and Science program in April 2015 as Deputy Director, Oceans. She leads the Oceans and Fisheries team in this newly created role where she manages growth in the scale and ambition of oceans-related grantmaking. Prior to joining the Foundation, for the past 20 years, Meg has been the Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy Program Director at Stanford Law School. While at Stanford, since 2007, she has also been the Executive Director of the Center for Ocean Solutions (COS). COS is a collaboration among Stanford University (through the Stanford Woods Institute and the Hopkins Marine Station), the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Meg played a critical role in the creation of COS and led the organization in the development of a Pacific Ocean-wide assessment of the major threats to marine and coastal ecosystems, along with the communities that depend on them—the first assessment of its kind. She also served as a Senior Consultant to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. The Commission ultimately adopted a majority of the recommendations for regulatory reform that were developed by COS.

Meg served on the California Coastal Commission from 2004-2007 and 2009-2012, including two years as its chairperson during which time she also served on the board of the California Coastal Conservancy. She is also an honorary professor in the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland, Australia. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1994, Meg was an instructor at San Jose State University; an associate in the environmental law group of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen; and a Policy Analyst with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in San Francisco. Meg holds a Bachelor’s degree in Science in business administration from the University of California at Berkeley and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.