Karl Goodsell

CEO

For over 15 years, Karl has dedicated himself to creating a positive impact for marine life and coastal communities worldwide. As the CEO of Positive Change for Marine Life (PCFML), Karl leads a team of passionate professionals who work with local partners to develop circular projects that address health and economic challenges through a conservation-focused lens.

With a background in marine science and management, Karl’s expertise spans the design and implementation of viable solutions to marine conservation challenges, including decentralised waste management and food production systems, co-designed fisheries management approaches, carbon and biodiversity offsets, as well as rewilding projects.

Karl is also a lifelong Fellow and Associate Director of the Kinship Conservation Fellows, a prestigious program that trains and supports conservationists from around the world to apply market-based principles to their work.

Karl is proud of the achievements and impact that PCFML has made across seven countries so far, and is motivated by a triple-bottom-line approach. One where thriving ecological systems and equitable communities are the primary drivers of a new economy that puts our one, shared ocean first.