Chairman of Oceanology International Conference 2010

Dr. D. James Baker is currently the Director of the Global Carbon Measurement Program of the William J. Clinton Foundation. 

He is also a science and management consultant with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO and the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. 

He is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and an adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Delaware.  From 1993 to 2001 he was Administrator of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).  

He has also served as President and CEO of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.  Before coming to NOAA, he was President of Joint Oceanographic Institutions Inc., the first Dean of the College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington; and taught and carried out research at Harvard University and the University of Rhode Island.

He has led oceanographic expeditions to many parts of the world; shares a patent for a deep-sea pressure gauge; has more than 100 scientific publications; and is the author of the book Planet Earth: The View from Space.