Philippe Cousteau

Explorer, social entrepreneur and environmental advocate, Philippe Cousteau is a member of the legendary family. He is the President of EarthEcho International (www.earthecho.org), a non-profit organization whose goal is to engage and empower youth to take action for a brighter future. His tools are simple-education, balanced advocacy and a commitment to action.

In addition to his work with EarthEcho International, Philippe is co-founder of Azure Worldwide (www.azureworldwide.com), a strategic environmental design, development and marketing company.
Most recently, Philippe announced a partnership with AdvisorShares Investments to leverage Wall Street to "do good" by launching the Global Echo Fund on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: GIVE), the first multi-manager exchange traded fund with a sustainable investment mandate where a portion of the management fee will fund a new Foundation aimed at funding solutions to many of the challenges facing the world community from social issues impacting women and children to environmental conservation, as well as supporting social entrepreneurship.

Philippe is also the spokesperson for the 2012 United States Pavilion at the World Expo in Yeosu Korea.

As a special correspondent for and host of the Going Green series on CNN International, Philippe reports regularly on environmental and humanitarian stories from exploration of the extreme science of climate change deep in the frozen arctic to the deforestation and indigenous rights in the Sumatran jungle. Philippe is also the coauthor, with Cathryn Berger Kaye, of Going Blue, A Teen Guide to Saving Our Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, & Wetlands (Free Spirit Publishing), which was released in the summer of 2010 and has been awarded Learning Magazine's 2011 Teachers' Choice Award for the Family, a Gold Nautilus Award and a 2010 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Gold Award, amongst others.

Philippe serves on the Board of Directors of The Ocean Conservancy, Marine Conservation Biology Institute, and the National Environmental Education Foundation, and the National Council of the World Wildlife Fund. Philippe has also testified to Congress on issues of ocean management and off-shore drilling.