Email: jwise@pewtrusts.org

Address:
Washington, D.C.

Jeffrey Wise joined the Pew Environment Group in 2008 and is now the Director of the Global Campaign to End Illegal Fishing. This campaign works to ensure a sustainable future for our oceans by combating illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing around the world.  Prior to this, Jeff served as the manager of Pew's Global Conservation Initiative.

Wise has worked on environmental issues for more than 20 years. Before joining Pew, he held various positions, including policy director for the National Environmental Trust, associate director for global environmental affairs for the National Security Council and fellow in the White House Office on Environmental Policy. He also served as communications director for the Nature Conservancy’s international program, as a legislative aide to Sen. Brock Adams of Washington and as a reporter for United Press International.

In the mid-1990s, he led an activist effort that won the greatest expansion of the government’s environmental right-to-know policies in a decade. Wise also managed media and advocacy activities that led to the phase out of phthalate chemicals by the world’s largest toy manufacturers. At the Nature Conservancy and elsewhere, he launched several major public outreach and cause-related marketing initiatives.

Wise holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Brown University, a master’s degree in natural resource economics from Stanford University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.