Stacy Baez

Stacy Baez leads The Pew Charitable Trusts’ global portfolio of coastal wetlands research partnerships, generating evidence to inform policy and drive conservation.

Baez has worked on science initiatives to enable the creation of large, fully protected marine areas worldwide, and she also worked to establish Caribbean shark sanctuaries. 

Before joining Pew, she worked at Oceana, conducting small-scale fisheries assessments in the Philippines, and at the U.S. National Science Foundation as a Knauss Fellow. Baez holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Morgan State University and a doctorate in oceanography from Old Dominion University.